Steve Abbott
Bruce Torrence
Editors

April 2009: Table of Contents

Page 5 — How I Got to Understand Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle
Eli Maor

Page 8 — A Conversation with Stephen Wolfram
Bruce Torrence

Page 11 — Who’s Hypatia? Whose Hypatia Do You Mean?
Hardy Grant

Page 16 — Math and the Arts: Just Passing Through
Jeff Chyatte, Ram Subedi, Vitaly Shvetsov, and Stephanie Pepin

Page 17 — A Disappearing Number
Stephen Abbott

Page 20 — Four-Coloring the US Counties
Mark McClure and Stan Wagon

Page 22 — A Dozen Hat Problems
Ezra Brown and James Tanton

Page 26 — Book Reviews: Re-righting the History of Women in Science
Meredith Clement, Jeremy Lea, Lisa Pham, Brandon Smith, Devin Smith, Nancy Wagner, Charlotte Simmons, John Barthell

Page 28 — The View From Here: Top Job
Hunter Glanz

Page 30 — The Playground
Derek Smith

Aftermath: Graphical Dysfunction (click to read and respond)
Frank Swenton

 


Math Horizons Editors Past and Present: Former editors Steve Kennedy, Deanna Haunsperger, Art Benjamin, Jenny Quinn, and current editors Steve Abbott and Bruce Torrence together at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Washington, D.C.