On the number line : 3: can bees count? ; 5: can chickens compute? ; 10: and the name of the rose ; 13: bad luck? ; 42: the answer to everything? ; 91: the numbers on the bone ; 1729: Hardy's taxi ; 119/100: high percentages ; [Pi]: as beautiful as Mona Lisa? ; [Square root]-1: victim of a character assassination ; [Infinite]₀: the end of the number line?
The never-ending story of prime numbers : Euclid is still right ; How many prime numbers are there? Fermat made a mistake ; The "Mozart of mathematics" makes use of an error ; Another search for errors ; A well-insured million
The mathematical perspective : Estimates ; Random numbers ; Everything far above average Integers
Caution: equations ; Equations for everything? The Body Mass Index ; The Huntington affair ; Pythagoras lives ; Equations as art
The small puzzles : Sudokus ; 3x+1 ; The perfect monster ; The great puzzles
Where mathematics is created : At the desk ; At the coffee machine ; At the café ; In the computer ; In bed ; In church ; In captivity ; In an attic room in Princeton ; On a beach ; In a paradise with a library ; Knowledge in the ArXiv ; Research in the Internet?
The book of proofs : About proofs ; Concerning errors ; About computer proofs ; Concerning precision ; Concerning surprises
Three legends : Mathematician vs. mathematician ; Was it Kovalevskaya's fault? ; The disappearance of Alexander Grothendieck
What kinds of people are these? : Paul Erdös: traveler ; Gian-Carlo Rota: provocateur ; Persi Diaconis: magician ; Daniel Biss: politician ; Caroline Lasser: colleague
What mathematicians can do : Self-confidence and visions ; "Unfortunately difficult" vs. "the right stuff" ; Record races ; You know more math that you think ; "Mathematics is ..."
