The Mathematical Intelligencer

2005 - 2025

Current editor(s): Marjorie Senechal

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Volume 44, issue 4, 2022

A Straightforward Proof of De Gua’s Theorem pp. 301-301

Martin Lukarevski

An Interview with Maryna Viazovska pp. 302-305

Ken Ono

Chandler Davis (1926–2022) pp. 306-307

Marjorie Senechal

Did Turing Stand on Gödel’s Shoulders? pp. 308-319

B. Jack Copeland and Zhao Fan

The Art of Unlocking pp. 320-325

Oleg Ogievetsky and Senya Shlosman

Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Citations pp. 326-330

Alberto Saracco

Chess Billiards pp. 331-338

Arnaldo Nogueira and Serge Troubetzkoy

A Generalized Polygonal Number Difference Theorem pp. 339-340

Günhan Caglayan

Early Retirement pp. 341-342

Colin Adams

The Cartesian Ovals pp. 343-353

Rida T. Farouki

Building Communities pp. 354-357

Della Dumbaugh and Deanna Haunsperger

How Often Do You Want Your Team to Win? pp. 358-359

John E. McCarthy

A Question of Fundamental Methodology: Reply to Mikhail Katz and His Coauthors pp. 360-363

Tom Archibald, Richard T. W. Arthur, Giovanni Ferraro, Jeremy Gray, Douglas Jesseph, Jesper Lützen, Marco Panza, David Rabouin and Gert Schubring

The Vibrational Modes of Simplicial Molecules pp. 364-370

Charles H. Conley and Jon Erickson

Proof Without Words: Sum of Fibonacci Numbers and Beyond pp. 371-372

Karol Gryszka

Who Proved Pythagoras’s Theorem? pp. 373-381

Zoran Lučić

Retrograde Baseball Redux pp. 382-388

Jerry Butters and Jim Henle

Thinking Better: The Art of the Shortcut in Math and Life pp. 391-392

Jo Boaler

The Madness of Crowds pp. 393-394

Mary Gray

Science in London: A Guide to Memorials pp. 395-396

Osmo Pekonen

Philosophy of Mathematics pp. 397-398

Roman Kossak

Liber Abbaci pp. 399-404

Stefano Gattei

Correction to: Sangaku Problems About Ellipses: Why Primary Sources Matter pp. 405-405

J. Marshall Unger

Number Theory 1 pp. 406-406

Robin Wilson

Volume 44, issue 3, 2022

A Generalized Form of a Visual Proof of $${\pi }^{e} pp. 191-191

Reza Farhadian

Correction to: In the Shadow of Euler’s Greatness: Adventures in the Rediscovery of an Intriguing Sum pp. 192-192

Seán M. Stewart

An Interview with Alexander Razborov pp. 193-202

Alexander Razborov

The Amazing Chromatic Polynomial pp. 203-211

Bruce E. Sagan

On Ramanujan’s Cubic Composition Formula pp. 212-214

Valentin Ovsienko

The Complex Life of Alfred Pringsheim pp. 215-224

K. C. Hannabuss

Secrets of Math Destruction pp. 225-226

Colin Adams

Winning Wordle Wisely—or How to Ruin a Fun Little Internet Game with Math pp. 227-237

Martin B. Short

Symmetries and Communities pp. 238-240

Marjorie Senechal

Motion and Continuity pp. 241-249

Peter J. Olver

Genius Loci: Mathematical Stories Along the Neva River pp. 250-260

Galina I. Sinkevich

Two-Track Depictions of Leibniz’s Fictions pp. 261-266

Mikhail G. Katz, Karl Kuhlemann, David Sherry, Monica Ugaglia and Mark Atten

A Note on the Closed-Form Solution for the Longest Head Run Problem of Abraham de Moivre pp. 267-268

Yaakov Malinovsky

Blowing Off Steam: Victorian Narratives of Frustration About Mathematics pp. 269-272

Brittany Anne Carlson

The Day She Proved It pp. 273-276

Álvaro Lozano-Robledo

The Pleasures of Friends pp. 277-284

Jim Henle

Luck, Logic, and White Lies. The Mathematics of Games, Second Edition pp. 286-287

Ronald J. Gould

Games for Your Mind: The History and Future of Logic Puzzles pp. 288-289

Albrecht Heeffer

The Life of Primes in 37 Episodes pp. 290-292

John J. Watkins

Modernism, Fiction and Mathematics by Nina Engelhardt pp. 293-295

Mary Gray

On the Brink of Paradox pp. 296-299

Andrew Simoson

Women in Mathematics pp. 300-300

Robin Wilson

Volume 44, issue 2, 2022

Pafnuty Chebyshev and Geography pp. 79-86

Athanase Papadopoulos

Wonder Cubes: Theme and Variations pp. 87-98

Azaria Paz

How to Choose a President, Mayor, Chair: Balinski and Laraki Unpacked pp. 99-107

Harrie Swart

Equinox pp. 108-110

Colin Adams

A Visual Tour of Identities for the Padovan Sequence pp. 111-118

Tom Edgar and David Nacin

The Gömböc Pill, Continuing pp. 119-122

Marjorie Senechal

Showing, Telling, Understanding: Musings on Popularization pp. 123-129

Emmanuel Ordóñez Angulo

The Geometric Dream Weaves of the T’boli pp. 130-136

Ma. Louise Antonette N. Peñas and Mark D. Tomenes

Early Twentieth-Century Visitors and the Development of Modern Mathematics in China pp. 137-149

Chuanming Zong

A Note on the Remarkable Expression of the Number $${8}/{\pi ^2}$$ 8 / π 2 That the Ramanujan Machine Discovered pp. 150-152

Miroslav Kureš

I Can See the Ellipsoid from the Inside: Girtonian Responses to Francis Galton’s Survey on Mental Imagery pp. 153-160

Jemma Lorenat

Whether pp. 161-161

Chandler Davis

The Mathematical Art of Change Ringing pp. 162-169

Marjorie Batchelor and Jim Henle

The Case of Academician Nikolai Nikolaevich LuzinEdited by Sergei S. Demidov and Boris V. Lëvshin. Translated from the Russian by Roger Cooke pp. 172-174

Alexey Glutsyuk

Meeting under the Integral Sign? The Oslo Congress of Mathematicians on the Eve of the Second World War by Christopher D. Hollings and Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze pp. 175-180

Rossana Tazzioli

Turbulent Times in Mathematics: The Life of J. C. Fields and the History of the Fields Medal by Elaine McKinnon Riehm and Frances Hoffman pp. 181-184

Michael J. Barany

Curvature of Space and Time, with an Introduction to Geometric Analysis pp. 185-186

Bogdan D. Suceavă

Risk, Choice, and Uncertainty: Three Centuries of Economic Decision-Making by George G. Szpiro COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2020, 264 PP., US$32.00, ISBN 978-0-231-19474-7 pp. 187-189

Andrew J. Simoson

International Congresses of Mathematicians pp. 190-190

Robin Wilson

Volume 44, issue 1, 2022

The Goat in the City pp. 1-6

Gilbert Bassett

Loewner’s “Forgotten” Theorem pp. 7-11

Peter Albers and Serge Tabachnikov

Sangaku Problems About Ellipses: Why Primary Sources Matter pp. 12-19

J. Marshall Unger

Where Do Theorems Come From? pp. 20-21

Colin Adams

The Golden Ratio and Hydrodynamics pp. 22-27

Boris Khesin and Hanchun Wang

Party Time for Mathematicians in Heidelberg pp. 28-31

Osmo Pekonen

Inference to the Best Explanation Is an Important Form of Reasoning in Mathematics pp. 32-38

Marc Lange

A Large Controversy from a Small Town: Johann Georg von Soldner of Feuchtwangen pp. 39-43

Bismark Singh

Visual Evaluation of a Geometric Series: Sum of Reciprocals of Odd Powers of Two pp. 44-45

Rajib Mukherjee

The Origin of the Bernoulli Numbers: Mathematics in Basel and Edo in the Early Eighteenth Century pp. 46-56

Tomoko L. Kitagawa

A Paraconsistent Poem pp. 57-57

Jeremiah Joven Joaquin

Square Dance from a Mathematical Perspective pp. 58-64

Luke Sciarappa and Jim Henle

Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces by Shoshichi Kobayashi, translated from the Japanese by Eriko Shinozaki Nagumo and Makiko Sumi Tanaka pp. 66-67

Bogdan D. Suceavă

The Essence of Numbers pp. 68-70

Andrew Simoson

Reckonings: Numerals, Cognition, and History by Stephen Chrisomalis pp. 71-73

Andrew Simoson

Bicycle or Unicycle? A Collection of Intriguing Mathematical Puzzles pp. 74-75

Philip D. Straffin

The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread—And Why They Stop pp. 76-77

Sune Lehmann and Jonas L. Juul

Stamps of Various Shapes pp. 78-78

Robin Wilson