Archives of Mistakes of the Month

March 2004 - Politics and Economics Don't Mix

February 2004 - The Mathematics of 3D Graphics Part 1: Lights, Camera, Action

December 2003 - The Top 5 Math Mistakes of 2003

*indicates updated info included since original posting

What Do We Call This Decade Anyways? (1/03)

Palindrome Numbers (12/2002) 

Primes is in P: A 2200 Year Old Math Problem Solved! (9/02)*

Novel Mathematics: A Reading List (5/02)

Game Theory 1: Is there an Ideal Strategy for the War on Terrorism? (10/01)
Game Theory 2: It's the SIMple things in "Life" (2/02)
Game Theory 3: The Mathematician Curt Schilling (4/02)
Game Theory 4: The Human Factor (2/03)

Art by the Numbers is Mediocrity (8/1) *

What is Mathematics? 
Part 1 (6/01)
 
Part 2 (7/01) 
Part 3 (9/01)

The Damnable Lie of Math Education (5/01)

What is "Math Literacy"? (4/01)

America's Aversion to the Metric System (3/01)

Desert Island Math Problems (1/01)*

The Mathematics of a Tied Election, Political Polling, the Election Paradox, and "fuzzy butterfly ballots" (10/00 and 12/00)

Math and the Final Frontier (9/00)

Mysterious Alternative Soundtracks (8/00)

Math and Music: A Primer (6/00) 

The Mathematics of String Art (5/00)

The Law of Zero Return (4/00) 

Billions and Billions (2/00)

The Greatest Math Mistake of the Century (12/99)

The Real and Ideal of Math Education in America (11/99)

Information and Privacy (10/99)

Obfuscating the Eschaton (8/99)

Speed Limits and Traffic Deaths (6/99)

If the Correlation fits... (4/99)

Lies of the Computer Industry (12/98)

Lottery Math (8/98)

The Real "face" on Mars (4/98)

Ma Bell's Phone Numbers do not add up (2/98)

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