Divide and Conquer Thomas Nicely set out to study prime numbers that occur in pairs. Along the way, he discovered that Intel's Pentium chip couldn't divide. The Gentle Art of Control Modern technology relies on mathematical control theory to keep things on an even keel. For some researchers, computtational turbulence is literally a pipe dream. The continuously increasing power of computers has enabled researchers to take a discrete look at the world.
Theorists seek to explain the complex patterns that are often seen.
A computational challenge in number theory has been met, considerably sooner than the 20,000 years it was expected to take. A theorem about multivariate integration may find a home on Wall Street. Computers Take Algebraic Geometry Back to Its Roots Computer power has brought algorithmic questions in algebraic geometry back to the fore. An automated theorem prover succeeeds in settling a decades-old conjecture in symbolic logic. Ecology A collaboration between mathematicians and biologists has led to the first experimental evidence for chaotic dynamics in a population.