Big Calculator
How Texas Instruments monopolized math class.
Mathematics
John Urschel Goes Pro
How a professional football player became a top-flight mathematician.
Chaos Makes the Multiverse Unnecessary
Science predicts only the predictable, ignoring most of our chaotic universe.
Encounter with the Infinite
How a minimally trained, isolated man named Srinivasa Ramanujan figured out some of mathematics’ deepest theoretical problems using little more than an out-of-date elementary school textbook.
Michael Atiyah’s Imaginative State of Mind
A conversation about beauty with an 86-year-old mathematician.
Encounter With the Infinite
In search of Ramanujan in India.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Toroid"
On mathematical shapes and family ruptures.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Delivery"
A pizza deliverer/calculus whiz becomes involved in the lives of two unstable college students.
"I licked my thumb, outside, by the car, and ran it over the suction cups, before I slapped the marquee to the top of my cobalt blue Toyota. The pizzas were already sitting in the passenger seat, cardboard mouths smiling. I was conscious, despite Walter’s assertion, that I was operating under the tick of a clock, an invisible, indefinite deadline. Really, we all are. But no one realizes how soon it’s coming."
Shattered Genius
The author attempts to interview Grigori Perelman, a reclusive mathematical genius.
The Genius Who Lives Downstairs
Excerpted from the author’s biography of mathematician Simon Phillips Norton.
