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What the Great Depression Can Teach Us About Responding to COVID
Jordan Ellenberg and Jeremi Suri
Sept 02, 2021
2:51 PM
The Mathematician Who Won a Gold Medal Had Some Brilliant Advice on the Pandemic
Jordan Ellenberg
July 29, 2021
4:47 PM
The Number That Becomes More Amazing the More You Study It
Jordan Ellenberg
June 08, 2021
1:27 PM
The Worst COVID Prediction Model Was Great at Projecting Cattle Disease in the 1800s
Jordan Ellenberg
May 26, 2021
2:36 PM
How Our Mathematicians’ Brief Could Help SCOTUS Fix Gerrymandering
Jordan Ellenberg
March 29, 2019
5:02 PM
How to Fix Gerrymandering: Make State Legislatures Bigger
Jordan Ellenberg
June 23, 2017
3:23 PM
How Will We Know If Nate Silver Was Right?
Jordan Ellenberg
Nov 07, 2016
3:24 PM
The 3-Pointer Is Old News. Here’s Where the NBA Should Put the 4-Point Line.
Jordan Ellenberg and Josh Levin
June 20, 2016
4:38 PM
Here’s How to Make Sense of the Coin Flip Paradox
Jordan Ellenberg
Nov 02, 2015
2:22 PM
It’s Not a Myth: Basketball Players Really Do Have “Hot Hands”
Jordan Ellenberg
Oct 26, 2015
12:28 PM
What Is Tenure and Why Do Universities Use It?
New England’s Incredible Ball Security Is Not Impossible but Also Not Meaningless
Jordan Ellenberg
Jan 29, 2015
9:27 PM
How Many States Nate Silver Is Going to Get Wrong, According to Nate Silver
Jordan Ellenberg
Nov 03, 2014
4:25 PM
The First Woman to Win Math’s Highest Honor Works in a Dynamic Field
Jordan Ellenberg
Aug 13, 2014
5:12 PM
United’s Perverse Frequent Flier Incentive: Spend More, Get More Miles
Jordan Ellenberg and Ben Blatt
July 17, 2014
10:22 AM
The Iffy Ethics of Making a Huge Number of Facebook Users Very, Very Slightly Sadder
Jordan Ellenberg
June 30, 2014
6:22 PM
The Author of How Not to Be Wrong Explains How He Was Wrong
Jordan Ellenberg
June 13, 2014
4:41 PM
How Can Rich People Vote Republican and Rich States Vote for Democrats?
Jordan Ellenberg
June 11, 2014
3:29 PM
What’s Even Creepier Than Target Guessing That You’re Pregnant?
Jordan Ellenberg
June 09, 2014
12:10 PM
Does 0.999… = 1? And Are Divergent Series the Invention of the Devil?
Jordan Ellenberg
June 06, 2014
11:55 AM
