“The End of Probability” by Elie Ayache. Previously published in Wilmott (November 2010): 40–44. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Reprinted with permission of John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
“Early Modern Mathematical Instruments” by Jim Bennett. Previously published in Isis 102.4 (2012): 697–705, University of Chicago Press. © 2011 by The History of Science Society. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of the University of Chicago Press.
“The Prospects for Mathematics in a Multi-Media Civilization” by Philip J. Davis. Originally published in Mathamtics Everywhere, edited by Martin Aigner and Ehrhard Behrends, Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society, 2010. © 2010. Reprinted by kind permission of the American Mathematical Society and the author.
“High Fashion Meets Higher Mathematics” by Kelly Delp. Previously published in Math Horizons 20.2(2012): 5–10. Reprinted by kind permission of the Mathematical Association of America and the author.
“Errors of Probability in Historical Context” by Prakash Gorroochurn. Previously published in The American Statistician, Volume 65, Issue 4, (2011) pp. 246–254. Copyright 2011 from “Errors of Probability in Historical Context” by Prakash Gorroochurn. Reproduced by permission of American Statistical Association, http://www.amstat.org.
“Degrees of Separation” by Gregory Goth. Previously published in Communications of the ACM 55.7(2012): 13–15. Copyright © 2012 Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. Reprinted by permission. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2209249.2209255
“Bridges, String Art, and Bézier Curves” by Renan Gross. This article first appeared in Plus Magazine, http://plus.maths.org (March 5th, 2012). Reprinted by kind permission of the author.
“An ABC Proof Too Tough Even for Mathematicians” by Kevin Hartnett. Previously published in The Boston Globe, November 4, 2012. Reprinted by kind permission of the author.
“Playing the Odds” by Soren Johnson. Previously published in Games, Learning, and Society, edited by Constance Steinkuehler, Kurt Squire, and Sasha Barab. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Originally published in Game Developer Magazine, October 2009. Copyright © 2012 Cambridge University Press. Reprinted with permission of Cambridge University Press.
“Randomness in Music” by Donald E. Knuth. Previously published in Selected Papers on Fun and Games by Donald E. Knuth, Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications, 2011. Reprinted by kind permission of the Donald W. Knuth and the Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University.
“How Old Are the Platonic Solids?” by David R. Lloyd. Previously published in BSHM Bulletin: British Society for the History of Mathematics Bulletin 27.3(2012): 131–140. Copyright © British Society for the History of Mathematics, reprinted by permission of Taylor & Francis Ltd., www.tandfonline.com on behalf of The British Society for the History of Mathematics.
“Math Anxiety: Who Has It, Why It Develops, and How to Guard Against It” by Erin A. Maloney and Sian L. Beilock. Reprinted from Trends in Cognitive Sciences 16(8) (2012) 404–406. Copyright © 2012 with permission from Elsevier.
“Machines of the Infinite” by John Pavlus. Previously published in Scientific American 307.3 (2012): 66–71. Reprinted by kind permission of the author.
“A Revolution in Mathematics? What Really Happened a Century Ago and Why It Matters Today” by Frank Quinn. Previously published in Notices of the American Mathematical Society 59.1(2012): 31–37. Reprinted by kind permission of the author.
“The Jordan Curve Theorem Is Non-trivial” by Fiona Ross and William T. Ross. Previously published in Journal of Mathematics and the Arts 5.4(2011): 213–219, Taylor and Francis. Reprinted by permission of Taylor & Francis Ltd., www.tandfonline.com.
“Randomness” by Charles Seife. Previously published in This Will Make You Smarter, edited by John Brockman. New York: Harper, 2012, pp. 105–108. © 2012 Random House, Inc. reprinted with permission of Random House, Inc.
“Why Mathematics? What Mathematics?” by Anna Sfard. Originally published in The Mathematics Educator 22.1(2012): 3–16. Reprinted by kind permission of the author and The Mathematics Educator.
“Slicing a Cone for Art and Science” by Daniel S. Silver. Previously published in American Scientist 100.5(2012): 408–415. Reprinted by permission of American Scientist.
“Fearful Symmetry” by Ian Stewart. Previously published in Bletchley Park Times (Autumn 2010): 10–12. Reprinted by kind permission of the author.
“E pluribus unum: From Complexity, Universality” by Terence Tao. Previously published in Daedalus, 141.3 (2012): 23–34. © 2012 by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Reprinted by kind permission of the author, Daedalus, and MIT Press.