Ivars Peterson

Ivars Peterson is the mathematics/computer writer and online editor at Science News (http://www.sciencenews.org). He is the author of The Mathematical Tourist, Islands of Truth, Newton's Clock, Fatal Defect, and The Jungles of Randomness. He is currently writing a book about art and mathematics. He and his wife, Nancy Henderson, have just completed Math Trek: Adventures in the MathZone, a fun math book for children of middle-school age. It is to be published in the fall by Wiley.

Ivars Peterson's MathTrek is a weekly online math column. Ivars Peterson was Journalist in Residence at MSRI during the summer of 1999. You can read the columns that he wrote while he was at MSRI below:

September 4 MSRI Reflections
August 21 Lunar Shadows
August 14 Matrices, Circles, and Eigenthings
August 11 Eclipse Party
August 7  Averting Instant Insanity
August 4  The Jungles of Randomness
July 31      Juggling by Design
July 24      The Honeycomb Conjecture
July 24      Mersenne Megaprime
July 17      Row Your Boat
July 10      A Song About Pi
July 3        Solitaire-y Sequences
June 26    The Return of Zeta
June 24    Computing at the Edge
June 19    The Mark of Zeta
June 12    Fibonacci at Random
June 12    MSRI Journal

Fragment of Infinity

Designed by Ivars Peterson using the Sculpture Generator software developed by Carlo H. Sequin of the University of California, Berkeley.

Peterson, I. 1998. Twists through space. Science News 154(Aug. 29).