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An archive of online columns written by Ivars Peterson (1996-2007) and updated.

Sunday, September 22, 2013

A Song about Pi

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Irving "Kap" Kaplansky was a prominent mathematician—a leading algebraist— who died in 2006 . I met Kaplansky in 1999, when ...
Friday, July 19, 2013

Cubes of Perfection

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Playing with integers can lead to all sorts of little surprises. A whole number that is equal to the sum of all its possible divisors—incl...
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Ivars Peterson is a freelance writer and editor. He was Director of Publications at the Mathematical Association of America from 2007 to 2014. As an award-winning mathematics writer, he previously worked at Science News for more than 25 years and served as editor of Science News Online and Science News for Kids. His books include The Mathematical Tourist, Islands of Truth, Newton's Clock, and Fragments of Infinity: A Kaleidoscope of Math and Art.
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