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How to Lie With Negative Numbers
Jordan Ellenberg
June 05, 2014
8:32 AM
Why Are Handsome Men Such Jerks?
Jordan Ellenberg
June 03, 2014
10:13 PM
Stephen Colbert Thinks “Number Sentences” Are Silly. They’re Not.
Jordan Ellenberg
June 03, 2014
2:26 PM
Why Kids Love Baseball, and You Should, Too
Jordan Ellenberg
Oct 21, 2013
3:20 PM
An Astonishing Act of Statistical Chutzpah in the Indiana Schools’ Grade-Changing Scandal
Jordan Ellenberg
Aug 02, 2013
12:27 PM
NSA Agents Target Friends of Friends. How Many of Those Do You Have?
Jordan Ellenberg
June 07, 2013
1:34 PM
If Police Find a DNA “Match,” That Doesn’t Mean They Have the Right Suspect
Jordan Ellenberg
June 05, 2013
4:57 PM
A Huge Discovery About Prime Numbers—and What It Means for the Future of Math
Jordan Ellenberg
May 22, 2013
4:44 PM
Losing Is for Losers: How To Reformat Olympic Tournaments So Teams Won’t Be Rewarded for Tanking
Jordan Ellenberg
Aug 03, 2012
12:59 PM
Down With the Perfect 10: Why We Should Welcome the New Gymnastics Scoring System
Jordan Ellenberg
July 31, 2012
7:30 AM
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
Russian mathematician Grigory Perelmanturned down $1 million for proving the Poincaré conjecture. What's that?
Jordan Ellenberg
July 02, 2010
2:07 PM
Russian mathematician Grigory Perelmanturned down $1 million for proving the Poincaré conjecture. What’s that?
Jordan Ellenberg
July 02, 2010
2:07 PM
Hunting for statistical fraud in Iran’s elections.
Jordan Ellenberg
June 17, 2009
10:46 AM
The math behind estimating seasonal flu deaths.
Jordan Ellenberg
May 14, 2009
12:20 PM
Why your ballot isn’t meaningless.
Jordan Ellenberg
Oct 31, 2008
7:09 AM
How the financial markets fell for the martingale, a 400-year-old sucker bet.
Jordan Ellenberg
Oct 02, 2008
1:20 PM