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TORONTO: Launch Party, Ben McNally Books

24 September, Toronto

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NEW YORK CITY: Leon Levy Center for Biography, CUNY Graduate Center Alumni...

19 October, Leon Levy Center for Biography, CUNY Graduate Center Alumni Panel Discussion with Gary Giddins

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How to Build a Search Engine for Mathematics

On the average summer Saturday, the mathematician Neil Sloane woke up to a crisis. “There are always crises,” he said— albeit crises of the teapot tempest variety. One Saturday over breakfast, he faced...

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PRINCETON: Fine Hall, Math Department Common Room

2 November, Launch Party, 6-7 pm 3rd Floor, Fine Hall, Math Department Common Room

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TORONTO: Ontario Assoc. for Mathematics Education Leadership Conference...

6 November, Toronto, Ontario Assoc. for Mathematics Education Leadership Conference Reading & Signing

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EDINBURGH: School of Mathematics Colloquium

13 November,University of Edinburgh, School of Mathematics Colloquium.

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CAMBRIDGE: Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences

16 November, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Reading and Q&A with John Conway.

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TORONTO: Royal Canadian Institute

3 December, Toronto, Royal Canadian Institute.

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NEW YORK CITY: The Princeton Club Library

9 December, New York City, The Princeton Club Library.

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BANFF: BIRS Creative Writing in Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences

10-15 January, Banff, BIRS Creative Writing in Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences.

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TORONTO: University of Toronto

February 23, Toronto, University of Toronto, LM162 Auditorium, Lash Miller Building, 80 St. George Street 4 pm

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TUCSON: Tucson Festival of Books

12-13 March, Tucson Festival of Books, University of Arizona.

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ATLANTA: Gathering for Gardner

30 March – 3 April, Atlanta, GA, Gathering for Gardner.

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NORTHHAMPTON, MA: Smith College

14 April, Northhampton, MA, Smith College.

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WAITING FOR GODEL

In June of 1975, the Office of the White House Press Secretary announced President Gerald R. Ford’s picks for the National Medal of Science. One went to the Austrian-born mathematician and logician...

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EXETER: Phillips Exeter Academy

29 June, Exeter, Phillips Exeter Academy.

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The Dice You Never Knew You Needed

Erlier this spring, at a mathematical circus of a conference in the basement ballroom of Atlanta’s Ritz-Carlton, two scientists from the Dice Lab, Robert Fathauer and Henry Segerman, débuted their...

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Claude Shannon, the Father of the Information Age, Turns 1100100

Twelve years ago, Robert McEliece, a mathematician and engineer at Caltech, won the Claude E. Shannon Award, the highest honor in the field of information theory. During his acceptance lecture, at an...

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PRINCETON | Labyrinth Books, Paperback Launch Party

7 December, Labyrinth Books, Paperback Launch Party.

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ATLANTA: Joint Mathematics Meetings

4 – 7 January, Atlanta, Joint Mathematics Meetings.

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