Category Archives: Math in Pop Culture

Black Friday vs. STEM

Posted on November 23, 2012 by Tyler Clark

I ran across a post by Data Science consultant, Cathy O’Neil, with a chart comparing the number of Google searches done by for Global Warming and Black Friday. You can see Cathy’s thoughts on this at http://mathbabe.org/2012/11/21/black-friday-resistance-plan/. I created my own chart (through … Continue reading →

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Return of Prof. Strogatz’s Column in the New York Times

Posted on September 25, 2012 by Derek Smith

Two years ago, Professor Steven Strogatz wrote a series of articles for the New York Times titled The Elements of Math. In the first installation he covered topics such as infinity, calculus and group theory. The Professor is back with … Continue reading →

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Some Comments

Posted on August 2, 2012 by Jean Joseph

Andrew Hacker, in his article “Is Algebra Necessary?” in the Sunday Review of The New York Times (Sunday, July 29), raises a question that seems to have been raised by others but that fails to attract much attention. One might … Continue reading →

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Random Sample = All ?

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Jean Joseph

In some situations, one person might desire to know something about some other people, whether it be the amount of money they make, the number of books they have read, the percentage of them who buy a certain product, or … Continue reading →

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Math Art

Posted on June 11, 2012 by Tyler Clark

A reader (Robert Langton) suggested http://oliversin.eu/. It has a lot of beautiful paintings displayed on it. Many of them are math oriented. The artist’s bio is: Oliver Šin is a Hungarian artist based in Budapest. His influences come from street art, underground … Continue reading →

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