Math and Computer Science in the News http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html Did Jane Austin use game theory in her 1800s classic novel long before its military applications in the Cold War? http://phys.org/news/2013-04-pride-prejudice-strategic-jane-austen.html http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#97 The "reigning mad scientist of Hollywood" uses statistics to analyze film scripts and calculate how likely a movie will be a hit. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/06/business/media/solving-equation-of-a-hit-film-script-with-data.html?src=me&ref=general&_r=1& http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#96 Is mathematics discovered or invented? http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21729086.300-should-business-be-allowed-to-patent-mathematics.html http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#95 Belgian Pierre Deligne, who proved a deep conjecture about algebra and geometry. http://www.nature.com/news/mathematician-wins-award-for-shaping-algebra-1.12644 http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#94 The mathematics of card tricks http://phys.org/news/2013-03-art-mathematics.html http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#93 Using mathematical models to predict the outcome of the Major League Baseball season http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130329125258.htm http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#92 "the act of citing statistical factoids is not the same thing as drawing sound inferences from them" http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/07/in-supreme-court-debate-on-voting-rights-act-a-dubious-use-of-statistics/?smid=tw-share http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#91 Astronomy needs math right? Not what you would expect. http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130306.html http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#90 Really warm weather. A different use for a hockey stick. http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/03/hockey-stick-graph-now-even-more-stickish http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#89 Thought provoking and bluntly expressed. And very important. http://mathbabe.org/2013/02/10/gender-bias-in-math/ http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#88 Winter is the Platonist’s season. http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2012/12/the-wondrous-mathematics-of-winter-and-snow.html http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#87 Big. Really big. http://www.mersenne.org/ http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#86 In the Indiana General Assembly a bill was introduced to legislate the value of pi. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#85 This is different. Sorting algorithms in folk dance. http://www.youtube.com/user/AlgoRythmics http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#84 Just look at the picture – a Bengalese Finch with headphones. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/12/121220171836.htm http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#83 Few intoxicants are as dangerous to a mathematician as an audience of laypeople willingly listening to a math lecture. http://chronicle.com/article/MathematicsWhat-It-Means/134850// http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#82 So exactly what is statistics and why do I care? http://www.statistics2013.org/ http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#81 Chaos in the solar system. Eradicating disease. Aging the earth. And so much more. http://mpe2013.org/ http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#80 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, … http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Extras/Keynes_Newton.html http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#79 Isaac Newton, a posthumous child bom with no father on Christmas Day, 1642, was the last wonderchild to whom the Magi could do sincere and appropriate homage. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-20116508 http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#78 And what does this have to do with Math class? http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/8744071/should-alice-marry-bob/ http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#77 After 4000 years, we might understand why mediterranean courtyards are cool http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121011085219.htm http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#76 When do the polls get it right? http://phys.org/news/2012-11-margin-error.html http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#75 … and it was computer assisted using proof, not numeric computation. http://phys.org/news/2012-10-six-year-journey-proof-feit-thompson-theorem.html http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#74 "few can match the depths of her perverse and unmerited obscurity" http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/27/science/emmy-noether-the-most-significant-mathematician-youve-never-heard-of.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#73 If Mochizuki’s proof is correct, it will be one of the most astounding achievements of mathematics of the twenty-first century. http://www.nature.com/news/proof-claimed-for-deep-connection-between-primes-1.11378 http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#72 It's not often mathematics makes the op-ed pages. http://maa.org/pubs/FOCUSoct-nov12_Steen.html http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#71 Harder than you think. But it has just been done. http://www.insidehalton.com/news/article/1442467--oakville-man-is-olympic-string-flag-bearer http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#70 Will that be 33% more coffee or 33% less for a cup? http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/07/the-11-ways-that-consumers-are-hopeless-at-math/259479// http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#69 Baseball has always been a game of numbers, but a new use of statistics is changing the game. http://www.economist.com/blogs/gametheory/2012/05/defensive-tactics-baseball http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#68 Better queue management may mean less gridlock. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/14/traffic_control_with_maths/ http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#67 What do Kurt Vonnegut and the xy-axes have in common? http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2012/mar/16/kurt-vonnegut-plot-story-graph http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#66 And why everyone will care. http://www.fastcompany.com/1810522/mits-math-breakthrough-could-transform-your-phone-tablet-pc-tv-mri-scans?partner=homepage_newsletter http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#65 How mathematics can help you make really bad music. http://gizmodo.com/5856721/only-a-mathematician-could-love-the-worlds-ugliest-music http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#64 What do a nineteenth century Irish mathematician and Lara Croft have in common? http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v475/n7355/pdf/475166a.pdf http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#63 A celebration of the life and work of Alan Turing in the year of the 100th anniversary of his birth. http://turingcentenary.eu/ http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#62 [Newton] was the last of the magicians ... http://www.gap-system.org/~history/Extras/Keynes_Newton.html http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#61 The Archimedes Palimpsest recovered. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/oct/26/archimedes-palimpsest-ahead-of-time?CMP=EMCNEWEML1644/ http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#60 Just relaaaax. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111020024131.html http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news.html#59 How do we put 7 billion people in perspective? http://www.cbc.ca/news/offbeat/story/2011/10/27/f-population-big-numbers.html http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news.html#58 A poetic paean to pasta http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/10/24/the-trigonometry-of-tortellini/ http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#57 Just where did our complete dependence on numbers come from? http://www.nationalpost.com/news/world+built+numbers/5392046/story.html http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#56 How comfortable are you with your computer acting as drill sergeant? http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110802180831.htm http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#55 Trees are used extensively in computer science, but here computer science identifies trees. http://mathdl.maa.org/mathDL?pa=mathNews&sa=view&newsId=1130 http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#54 Can you find the University of Waterloo connection to this story? And it's not the computer ... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13566878 http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#53 Every location in the UK is at the intersection of three or more lines from ancient monuments. That can't be random ... can it? http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2011/apr/21/aliens-postcode-system-ancient-britain http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#52 What happens when you replace numbers by shapes in a magic square? http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/apr/03/magic-squares-geomagic-lee-sallows http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#51 Are humans in jeopardy on Jeopardy? http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-03-nj-congressman-tops-jeopardy-watson.html http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#50 Soccer and the Art of Deception. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/331/6015/280.1.full http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#49 Won't you be my cardioid? http://poetrywithmathematics.blogspot.com/2011/02/loving-mathematician-valentines-day-and.html http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#48 Mathematical careers occupy the top five jobs according to CareerCast and the Wall Street Journal. http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/st_BESTJOBS0104_20110105.html http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#47 How fruit fly biology can improve very large distributed computing performance. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110113141559.htm http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#46 An anime feature of a math prodigy and his love interest where virtual and real-world complications ensue. http://movies.nytimes.com/2010/12/29/movies/29summer.html http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#45 Donald Knuth is one of the best known computer scientists in the world. Here he describes his family's emigration to America. There is lots more on him and on others. http://www.webofstories.com/play/17060 http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#44 International Olympiad of Informatics held in August at the University of Waterloo nurtured by top tech companies. Students invent and code their own ad hoc algorithms in just five hours. http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/11/mf_algorithmolympics/all/1?pid=3895 http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#43 An exhibition of Babylonian clay tablets entitled "Before Pythagoras" http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/27/arts/design/27tablets.html?_r=3&ref=global-home http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#42 Are you sure your teacher or students are real? http://www.thestar.com/news/sciencetech/article/884094--why-some-scientists-think-reality-might-be-a-hologram http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#41 No, it's not what you think. Mathematical biologists have improved our understanding of our internal clock. http://www.aip.org/dbis/stories/2010/20127.html http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#40 The fastest route around the bases is not the route taken by batters. http://www.sciencenews.org/index/generic/activity/view/id/64589/title/Math_Trek__Winning_the_World_Series_with_math http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#39 Martin Gardner is best known for his "Mathematical Games" column in Scientific American. These fun-filled events are his memorial http://www.g4g-com.org/ http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#38 When it's state-sponsored malware, the question gets complicated. We can probably agree that the Stuxnet worm is very good at being very bad. Beyond that, there is lots of room for debate. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/sep/24/stuxnet-worm-national-agency http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#37 What are the mental habits of a mathematician? http://mathteacherorstudent.blogspot.com/2010/09/habits-of-mind.html http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#36 The future of mathematics textbooks? http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jul/03/marcus-du-sautoy-apps-books http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#35 It may be impossible to predict where they will strike next. http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/07/locust-swarms/ http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#34 A famous probability puzzle fools most humans but not most pigeons. Scientists think that reason may be the reason. http://www.livescience.com/animals/pigeons-monty-hall-problem-100304.html http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#33 Two mathematicians believe they have proved giraffes can swim. Computer generated mathematical models show that the world's tallest animal can theoretically cross rivers. http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/06/01/giraffe-swimming-math-science.html http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#32 Mystery surrounds a mathematically designed shape which recently appeared in the countryside of Wiltshire, England. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/crop-circle-season-arrives-with-a-mathematical-message-1982647.html http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#31 Everyone remembers the devasting Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004. Mathematics is being used to find the optimal placement of tsunami warning systems. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100428093927.htm http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#30 How similar is composing a song to solving an equation or studying geometry? Connections between music and mathematics might be stronger than you think. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/06/AR2010050602301.html http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#29 One should always be extremely cautious when downloading anything from the internet. What can and should companies or governments do to combat the threat of malicious software? http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/04/28/google-study-fake-antivirus-software.html http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#28 Historians discovered a missing page of math problems written by Abraham Lincoln. See the digitized version of his homework that is helping researchers better understand the 16th President of the United States. http://www.sj-r.com/breaking/x932336848/Reunited-set-of-math-problems-gives-clues-to-how-Lincoln-learned http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#27 What does a Statistics Canada study on dental health mean for the controversy about fluoridation of drinking water? Are the statistics meaningful? Can important conclusions be made? http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/flouridation-may-not-do-much-for-cavities/article1535873/ http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#26 If the Olympics can cause an uneven demand for water, what other events might impact our use of the earth's resources? How can mathematics help us understand consumption patterns? http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/bathroom-breaks-could-wait-during-gold-medal-match/article1494358/ http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#25 Is our current system of a penny, nickel, dime and quarter as efficient as it could be? http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/06/do-we-need-a-37-cent-coin/ http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#24 How do you know when a game is really hard? http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/game-theory.html http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#23 Because it makes the world go round, or at least helps your GPS to work. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/think-globally/#more-42149 http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#22 Not only do female math students outperform men at Ontario's community colleges, but it's the 40-something female multi-taskers juggling jobs, families and mortgages who edge out their classmates of either sex at any age, new research shows. http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/777575--why-women-over-40-are-good-at-math?bn=1 http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#21 An interesting intersection of computing capabilities of the 21st century and one of most important mathematicians of the 17th century. http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2010/02/28/descartes-letter-discovery.html http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#20 Using sophisticated mathematics and computing algorithms has made dramatic differences when managing the large volumes of data common with medical imagery. http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/02/ff_algorithm http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#19 Mathematics helps uncover art fakes. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123405424 http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#18 Super computers require lots of electricity. Is there enough electricity for tomorrow's super computers? http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/why-the-computer-is-doomed/article1449339/ http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#17 Sovereign deficits are big news nowadays. Interesting table - treat the comments with caution. http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2010/02/random_fiscal_f.html http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#16 What do Ernie from Sesame Street and Plato have in common? The NY Times has a new column on mathematics. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/from-fish-to-infinity/?hp http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#15 No, we don't need aliens to explain this... http://www.badscience.net/2010/01/voices-of-the-ancients/ http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#14 According to CareerCast.com, mathematicians and computer scientists hold 6 of the best 10 jobs. http://www.collegenews.com/index.php?/careers/the_best_and_worst_jobs_for_2010_3589289059023/ http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#13 And how do we really know? Counting seems harder than we might think. http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/11/have-women-done-it/?hp http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#12 Tricks of a mathemagician ... http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/education/edlife/03quiz-t.html http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#11 A brilliant talk given by John Maynard Keynes, the great economist, on the life of ... http://www.gap-system.org/~history/Extras/Keynes_Newton.html http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#10 Ever thought about being a cost estimator? http://edition.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/10/26/cb.ten.math.jobs/index.html http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#09 Computers from quantum mechanics. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091115134128.htm http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#08 A wolf, a goat and a head of cabbage need to be safely ferried across a river ... http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/20/science/20tier.html http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#07 And you thought connecting from your place was hard. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/01/colombia-internet http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#06 How thinking mathematically about non-mathematical subjects makes sense. http://www.maa.org/devlin/devlin_10_09.html http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#05 According to CareerCast, four of the best five jobs in the US are for mathematicians and computer scientists. No surprise, really. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123119236117055127.html http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#04 Simple percentages make transportation at the Olympics much easier. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/the-smartest-commute-is-no-commute/article1321343/ http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#03 Assuming you are wearing a life-jacket, where will you float? http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/29/science/29chaos.html http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#02 A stellar cast of mathematicians, the quest for truth, villains - as a comic book? http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/27/books/review/Holt-t.html http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/news/news-math-and-cs.html#01