Siobhan roberts
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How to Teach Science with Sugar and Cream
High school teachers are bringing ice cream into the lab. -
How to Build a Search Engine for Mathematics
The surprising power of Neil Sloane’s Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences. -
The Rube Goldberg Machine That Mastered Keynesian Economics
While researching my soon-to-be-released biography on John Horton Conway, an iconoclastic and very influential mathematician at Princeton, I organized a research trip to his native England. We visited with Conway’s elder sister, Joan, in Liverpool, and convened a reunion at his alma mater, Cambridge. We met there with a few of his “sum chums,” his co-authors […] -
In Mathematics, Mistakes Aren’t What They Used to Be
Computers can’t invent, but they’re changing the field anyway.
