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How to Fix Gerrymandering: Make State Legislatures Bigger
Jordan Ellenberg
June 23, 2017
3:23 PM
How Will We Know If Nate Silver Was Right?
Jordan Ellenberg
Nov 07, 2016
3:24 PM
How Many States Nate Silver Is Going to Get Wrong, According to Nate Silver
Jordan Ellenberg
Nov 03, 2014
4:25 PM
The First Woman to Win Math’s Highest Honor Works in a Dynamic Field
Jordan Ellenberg
Aug 13, 2014
5:12 PM
United’s Perverse Frequent Flier Incentive: Spend More, Get More Miles
Jordan Ellenberg and Ben Blatt
July 17, 2014
10:22 AM
The Iffy Ethics of Making a Huge Number of Facebook Users Very, Very Slightly Sadder
Jordan Ellenberg
June 30, 2014
6:22 PM
An Astonishing Act of Statistical Chutzpah in the Indiana Schools’ Grade-Changing Scandal
Jordan Ellenberg
Aug 02, 2013
12:27 PM
A Huge Discovery About Prime Numbers—and What It Means for the Future of Math
Jordan Ellenberg
May 22, 2013
4:44 PM
What Broadway Musicals Tell Us About Creativity
Jordan Ellenberg
March 23, 2012
9:00 AM
Oslo attack: Was Norway’s death toll really proportionally worse than 9/11?
Jordan Ellenberg
July 25, 2011
11:05 AM
The common statistical thread between psychiatric diagnosis and grad school rankings.
Jordan Ellenberg
Jan 05, 2011
6:32 AM
Is the Mega Millions lottery a mug’s game? It all depends on how you play.
Jordan Ellenberg
Dec 31, 2010
7:12 AM
A mathematician figures out the best way to jam an extra star onto the American flag.
Chris Wilson
June 09, 2010
9:59 AM
Hunting for statistical fraud in Iran’s elections.
Jordan Ellenberg
June 17, 2009
10:46 AM
How the financial markets fell for the martingale, a 400-year-old sucker bet.
Jordan Ellenberg
Oct 02, 2008
1:20 PM
The New York Times slips up on sexual math.
Jordan Ellenberg
Aug 13, 2007
6:09 PM
Slate’s mathematician on the odds the Democrats will flip the House.
Jordan Ellenberg
Sept 19, 2006
1:17 PM
Does the proof of the Poincaré conjecture matter?
Jordan Ellenberg
Aug 18, 2006
11:59 AM
Does one Israeli death really equal 47 American deaths?
Jordan Ellenberg
July 24, 2006
12:29 PM
Cooking the books on virginity.
Jordan Ellenberg
July 07, 2005
6:48 AM