Contains 10 articles that explores topics ranging from Fermat's Last Theorem to Computational Fluid Dynamics. This volume includes articles on: a fresh mathematical method that's taking Wall Street by storm 'Ultra-parallel' supercomputing with DNA, and how a mathematician found the famous flaw in the Pentium chip.

Some people used to buy 'Scientific American' just to get their hands on the latest Martin Gardner puzzle column, and today Gardner's friends and colleagues honour him every other year at the Gathering for Gardner (G4G) conferences.

Mathematicians like to point out that mathematics is universal. In spite of this, most people continue to view it as either mundane (balancing a checkbook) or mysterious (cryptography). This work contradicts that view by showing that mathematics is indeed found everywhere - in science, art, history, and our everyday lives.

Suitable for mathematics majors, graduate students and mathematics clubs.

Surveys some of the important developments in the mathematical sciences. In this work, you can read about how computers can't always be trusted to provide the right answer, how mathematics is contributing to solving environmental problems, and how mathematicians have solved a longstanding problem about the way a drum's shape affects its sound.

This book encourages students to think about mathematics rather than simply plugging numbers into equations to crank out answers.

Suitable for those with an interest in mathematics, this work features articles including: 'From Wired to Weird', on advances that are encouraging research in quantum computation; 'A Prime Case of Chaos', on connections between number theory and theoretical physics; 'Beetlemania: Chaos in Ecology'; and, 'A Blue-Letter Day for Computer Chess'.

Features the Poincare Conjecture, a hundred-year-old problem that has apparently been solved by Grigory Perelman of St Petersburg, Russia. This book also contains chapters on Venn diagrams and primality testing.