Category Archives: Math

Collaborative Mathematics in the NYT

Posted on August 17, 2010 by Kareem Carr

By Kareem Carr An intriguing article, which ties together the recent debate over a proof by Vinay Deolalikar of Hewlett-Packard and the emergence of collaborative mathematics online has appeared on the New York Times site. It might be fair to … Continue reading →

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Insights into Scholarly Living

Posted on May 19, 2010 by Kareem Carr

By Kareem Carr The Peoples Archive is an online video archive where people who have achieved some success in their lives discuss in detail their life stories. The original focus was science and so, lucky for us, many of these … Continue reading →

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Democratic, Free-market Mathematics

Posted on May 18, 2010 by Kareem Carr

By Kareem Carr Some of you may have already heard about MathOverflow, but for those of you who haven’t, let me tell you what you’ve be missing.

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U.S. News Rankings

Posted on April 17, 2010 by Kareem Carr

By Kareem Carr For what it’s worth, the 2010 U.S. News rankings for graduate schools in mathematics are out.

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Nick Trefethen Comes to UW

Posted on April 15, 2010 by admin

by Nicholas Cain Nick Trefethen is one of those speakers that you only have to hear once to become entirely hooked on his future lectures.  I have now attended three lectures in two days, and I have come away from … Continue reading →

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