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

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

An Astonishing Act of Statistical Chutzpah in the Indiana Schools’ Grade-Changing Scandal

Jordan Ellenberg

Aug 02, 2013 12:27 PM

A Huge Discovery About Prime Numbers—and What It Means for the Future of Math

Jordan Ellenberg

May 22, 2013 4:44 PM

What Broadway Musicals Tell Us About Creativity

Jordan Ellenberg

March 23, 2012 9:00 AM

Oslo attack: Was Norway’s death toll really proportionally worse than 9/11?

Jordan Ellenberg

July 25, 2011 11:05 AM

The common statistical thread between psychiatric diagnosis and grad school rankings.

Jordan Ellenberg

Jan 05, 2011 6:32 AM

Is the Mega Millions lottery a mug’s game? It all depends on how you play.

Jordan Ellenberg

Dec 31, 2010 7:12 AM

A mathematician figures out the best way to jam an extra star onto the American flag.

Chris Wilson

June 09, 2010 9:59 AM

Hunting for statistical fraud in Iran’s elections.

Jordan Ellenberg

June 17, 2009 10:46 AM

How the financial markets fell for the martingale, a 400-year-old sucker bet.

Jordan Ellenberg

Oct 02, 2008 1:20 PM

The New York Times slips up on sexual math.

Jordan Ellenberg

Aug 13, 2007 6:09 PM

Slate’s mathematician on the odds the Democrats will flip the House.

Jordan Ellenberg

Sept 19, 2006 1:17 PM

Does the proof of the Poincaré conjecture matter?

Jordan Ellenberg

Aug 18, 2006 11:59 AM

Does one Israeli death really equal 47 American deaths?

Jordan Ellenberg

July 24, 2006 12:29 PM

Cooking the books on virginity.

Jordan Ellenberg

July 07, 2005 6:48 AM