The Mathematical Intelligencer

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Volume 38, issue 4, 2016

Emilie du Châtelet, 1706–1749: Transformer of Metaphysics and Scientist pp. 1-6

Ruth Hagengruber

Chemical π pp. 7-10

John Conway

Hopf Fibrations and Hurwitz-Radon Numbers pp. 11-18

Valentin Ovsienko and Serge Tabachnikov

The Guy with the Golden Touch pp. 19-22

Muhammad A. Khan

The Math Museum pp. 23-27

Colin Adams

Projective Geometry in the Moon Tilt Illusion pp. 28-34

Marc Frantz

Asparagoethe pp. 35-35

Terry Trowbridge

The NSA and the Social Responsibility of Mathematicians pp. 36-38

Jonathan Korman and Wing-Yee Tong

Looking Back on Gauss and Gaussian Legends: Answers to the Quiz from 37(4) pp. 39-45

David E. Rowe

Why Are We Not Able to See Beyond Three Dimensions? pp. 46-51

Rogério Martins

Drifting Runway Numbers pp. 52-55

Dirk Huylebrouck

Mathematical Humor: Jokes that Reveal How We Think About Mathematics and Why We Enjoy It pp. 56-61

Keith Weber

Knowing and Seeking pp. 62-64

Jim Henle

Émilie du Châtelet: Éclairages & Documents Nouveaux edited by Ulla Kölving and Olivier Courcelle pp. 65-69

Johan Stén

Émilie! pp. 70-77

Mary W. Gray

Émilie du Châtelet Between Leibniz and Newton edited by Ruth Hagengruber pp. 78-83

Robyn Arianrhod

Émilie by Kaija Saariaho pp. 84-85

Mary W. Gray

La Figure de la Terre (Film) by Axel Straschnoy pp. 86-86

Mary W. Gray

50 Visions of Mathematics edited by Sam Parc, Foreword by Dara O’Briain pp. 87-87

Gerald B. Folland

After Newton’s Principia pp. 88-88

Robin Wilson

Volume 38, issue 3, 2016

Real Clifford Algebras and Quadratic Forms over $${\mathbb{F}}_2$$ F 2: Two Old Problems Become One pp. 1-5

Valentin Ovsienko

Privacy and Counterfeit Coins pp. 6-10

Nicholas Diaco and Tanya Khovanova

Mathematicus pp. 11-13

Colin Adams

Logical Probability and the Strength of Mathematical Conjectures pp. 14-19

James Franklin

The Unforeseen Feminist pp. 20-23

Marcella LaVoi Melby

Tilings of Parallelograms by Similar Isosceles Triangles pp. 24-29

David G. L. Wang

Bertrand Russell at Bryn Mawr pp. 30-40

William Dunham

Stairway to Heaven: The Abstract Method and Levels of Abstraction in Mathematics pp. 41-51

Jean-Pierre Marquis

A Snapshot of Debates on Relativistic Cosmology, 1917–1924 (Part II) pp. 52-60

David E. Rowe

Fullerenes, Polyhedra, and Chinese Guardian Lions pp. 61-68

Eugene A. Katz and Bih-Yaw Jin

A Dialogue on the Ethics of Mathematics pp. 69-77

Paul Ernest

Persistence pp. 78-80

Jim Henle

An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics by James Franklin pp. 81-84

Alex Koo

Why Is There Philosophy of Mathematics At All? by Ian Hacking pp. 85-90

Carlos Montemayor

The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys’ Club by Eileen Pollack pp. 91-93

Marion Cohen

Mathematics in Twentieth-Century Literature and Art: Content, Form, Meaning by Robert Tubbs pp. 94-95

Luke Wolcott

Zombies and Calculus by Colin Adams pp. 96-97

Tushar Das

Isaac Newton pp. 98-98

Robin Wilson

Volume 38, issue 2, 2016

An Effective Tool Might Lead Us on to an Ineffective Proof pp. 1-2

Artin Sharifi

What Could “Effective” Mean for Proofs? pp. 3-3

Michael Neubrand

Catalan Numbers pp. 4-5

Federico Ardila

Writing an Open Text pp. 6-9

Jim Hefferon and Albert Schueller

Dogma: S-shaped pp. 10-13

Pablo Castañeda

The Galactic Math Repository pp. 14-16

Colin Adams

Determining the Use of Mathematical Geometry in the Ancient Greek Method of Design pp. 17-28

Drew M. Ross

Centers of Mass of Poncelet Polygons, 200 Years After pp. 29-34

Richard Schwartz and Sergei Tabachnikov

Bridges: A World Community for Mathematical Art pp. 35-45

Kristóf Fenyvesi

A Snapshot of Debates on Relativistic Cosmology, 1917–1924 (Part I) pp. 46-58

David E. Rowe

Maine v. Mathematics: A Tale of Reapportionment, Calculation and Indignation pp. 59-64

Michael J. Caulfield

A Tasting Menu pp. 65-68

Jim Henle

Möbius Strips Before Möbius: Topological Hints in Ancient Representations pp. 69-76

Julyan H. E. Cartwright and Diego L. González

The Diabolic Connection Between Paris and Brussels pp. 77-79

Dirk Huylebrouck

Imagined Civilizations: China, the West, and Their First Encounter by Roger Hart pp. 80-82

Andrea Bréard

The Emperor’s New Mathematics: Western Learning and Imperial Authority During the Kangxi Reign (1662–1722) by Catherine Jami pp. 83-84

Albrecht Heeffer

Enlightening Symbols: A Short History of Mathematical Notation by Joseph Mazur pp. 85-86

Rafe Jones

Do I Count? Stories from Mathematicsby Günter M. Ziegler (translated from German by Thomas Von Foerster) pp. 87-88

Ulrich Daepp

Erratum to: Math at the Met pp. 89-89

Joseph Dauben and Marjorie Senechal

China and Japan pp. 90-90

Robin Wilson

Volume 38, issue 1, 2016

Conway’s Nonperpendiculars as a Tool: The Case of the Law of Cosines pp. 1-3

Michael Neubrand

New Proofs of Chaundy–Bullard Identity in “The Problem of Points” pp. 4-5

Huiming Zhang

Filling a Gap in the History of $${\pi}$$ π: An Exciting Discovery pp. 6-7

Benjamin Wardhaugh

Eye Movement Space pp. 8-13

Richard Clement

On the Even Distribution of Primes Mod P (And Why This is Not a Proof of the Goldbach Conjecture) pp. 14-21

Eric Gaze and Joseph Gaze

The Mechanical Problem of Squaring the Circle pp. 22-24

Stan Wagon

Painting New Lines: Maximizing Color Difference in Metro Maps pp. 25-31

Simone F. Griffioen and Arthemy V. Kiselev

WHAT IS… A Laminated Deck Transformation? pp. 32-33

Colin Adams

Paul Dirac and the Town of Saint-Maurice in Switzerland pp. 34-36

Jean-Paul Berrut

Prague Clocks pp. 37-39

Chan Bae, John Conway, Lukas Kohlhase and Sunghyuk Park

A Coxeter-Conway Duality pp. 40-40

Siobhan Roberts

The Extra Fibonacci Series and the Empire State Building pp. 41-48

John Conway and Alex Ryba

The Mysterious Mr. Graham pp. 49-55

Paul J. Nahin

“Mathematics Knows NoRaces”: A Political Speech that David Hilbert Planned for the ICM in Bologna in 1928 pp. 56-66

Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze

The Books of Numbers: Quantifying Historical Trends in Numeracy pp. 67-73

Yanqing Chen and Steven Skiena

The Minus and the Plus of Hi-Tech pp. 74-77

Jim Henle

Genius At Play: The Curious Mind of John Horton Conway by Siobhan Roberts pp. 78-81

Joseph Mazur

Combinatorics: Ancient & Modern by Robin Wilson and John J. Watkins (eds.) pp. 82-83

David Pritchard

Mathematics Across the Iron Curtain: A History of the Algebraic Theory of Semigroups by Christopher Hollings pp. 84-87

David E. Zitarelli

The Imitation Game by Andrew Hodges and Graham Moore pp. 88-89

Mary W. Gray

Math Goes to the Movies by Burkard Polster and Marty Ross pp. 90-92

Mary W. Gray

The Mathematician’s Shiva by Stuart Rojstaczer pp. 93-94

Tom Petsinis

Erratum to: On Morley’s Trisector Theorem pp. 95-95

John Conway

17th-Century French Mathematics pp. 96-96

Robin Wilson