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Mathematics

Article — From the September 2009 issue

Dehumanized

When math and science rule the school

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Weekly Review — October 31, 2006, 12:00 am

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By Theodore Ross

President George W. Bush officially replaced the phrase “stay the course” in Iraq with “We will stay in Iraq,” and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki insisted he never agreed to a U.S. timetable for reducing sectarian violence. “I’m not America’s man,” he said.Chicago TribuneNew York TimesNews.com.auDefense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told critics of the war to “back off.”Yahoo NewsIn Basra, Prince Philip of Britain assured the troops “at the sharp end” that “a great many locals do very much appreciate what you are trying to do for them,”New Zealand Heraldand Senator Rick Santorum said, “As the hobbits are going up Mount …

Readings — From the December 2004 issue

Original sine

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Weekly Review — December 9, 2003, 12:00 am

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By Roger D. Hodge

President George W. Bush signed a $400 billion Medicare bill that will provide a prescription-drug benefit to elderly Americans; the bill permits private insurance companies to compete with Medicare, which many think will destroy the program, but bans policies that would cover gaps in the drug benefit on the theory that people with good prescription coverage take too many pills and drive up medical costs.Associated Press, New York TimesThomas Scully, the federal official who runs Medicare, was preparing to take a job in the private sector, probably with a company that will directly benefit from the new bill, which he …

Readings — From the January 2000 issue

Iterations of immortality

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By David Berlinski

Readings — From the June 1999 issue

How many licks in a Tootsie Pop?

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Readings — From the November 1997 issue

Lowest common denominator

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Readings — From the September 1994 issue

Math for the bitter

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By Kevin J. Mistrik, Robert C. Thul

Readings — From the November 1985 issue

Armageddon by the numbers

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By Bruce G. Blair

Books — From the October 1981 issue

Plato in Vermont

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The ideal tree, and how to count it

The new books — From the September 1965 issue

Understanding the new math?

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By Darrell Huff

The new books — From the August 1963 issue

Mathematics for practically everybody

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By V. Guillemin

Article — From the April 1958 issue

Math even parents can understand

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By Peter Ferdinand Drucker

Article — From the November 1955 issue

Git along, little fractions

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By Martha Wolfenstein

Article — From the August 1954 issue

Math’s a pleasure

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By Mario George Salvadori

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Youthful logic

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Higher mathematics

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A new factor to reckon with

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Willy’s mathematics

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Mathematics up to date

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“Even if federal gun-control advocates got everything they wanted, they couldn’t prevent America’s most popular rifle from being made, sold, and used. Understanding why this is true requires an examination of how the firearm is made.”

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“This is the heart of the magic factory, the place where medicine is infused with the miracles of science.”

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“During the early 1990s, farmers throughout the Great Plains began to notice a decline in their wells. Irrigation systems from the Dakotas to Texas dipped, and, in some places, have been abandoned entirely.”

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