Fernando Estrada on Benoit Mandelbrot (1924-2010): A Greek among Romans. Mark Ronan on Euclid and the genius of geometry. A review of The Man of Numbers: Fibonacci's Arithmetic Revolution by Keith Devlin. The first chapter from Pythagoras' Revenge: A Mathematical Mystery by Arturo Sangalli. A review of Are Science And Mathematics Socially Constructed?: A Mathematician Encounters Postmodern Interpretations of Science (Nonlinear Science) by Richard C. Brown. Is pi "wrong"? Mathematicians want to say goodbye to pi. An interview with Reuben Hersh and Vera John-Steiner, authors of Loving and Hating Mathematics: Challenging the Myths of Mathematical Life (and more). Geometric minds skip school: Amazonian villagers grasp abstract spatial concepts (and more). A prize of $500 was once offered for its solution: Is mathematics finally ready to prove the Collatz conjecture? From Devlin's Angle, wanted: a mathematical iPod. By travelling all the way to Madagascar, the French academic Marc Chemillier has shown that humans have remarkable innate skills with numbers. A review of Perfect Rigor: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century by Masha Gessen. Students should learn everyday math the way they learn to play a musical instrument. A review of The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne. Josh Rothman on Plato, applied math, and you. The man who proved that everyone is good at maths: Phil Wilson on the philosophy of applied mathematics. A look at a sleepaway camp where math is the main sport. Struggling with your maths? If you are, then you may be one of the 5 to 7% of the population suffering from dyscalculia, the mathematical equivalent of dyslexia.
