What's New in Mathematics
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* Metonymy and Metaphor in Mathematics
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Math in the Media

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* The crumpling catastrophe: push a flat sheet of paper into a coffee filter holder. You will see ``conical dislocations in crumpling'' as described in an article ...more

*How to slice a tort? A new algorithm devised by NYU politics professor Steven Brams and Union College math professor Alan Taylor gives a method for ``arbitrating any dispute ...more

* Beautiful dynamics. ``Persistent patterns in transient chaotic fluid mixing'' in the October 21, 1999 Nature describes an elegant set of experiments in which a thin layer of fluid was stirred ...more


 
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* Math Digest: A collection of short summaries of articles about mathematics that have appeared in the popular press.

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* Links to Reviews of mathematics-related books, movies, etc. of general interest.

* Other Mathematics Servers for the layperson.

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* A comprehensive guide to Mathematics on the Web, aimed primarily at the professional mathematician.

* Mathematics Genealogy Project: Who begat whom, mathematically speaking.