Math in the News

Here is a selection of mathematics-related articles and editorials in newspapers. Note that I don't necessarily agree with the content of all of these articles that I've listed here.

• "U.S. professor finds longest prime number with 17,425,170 digits" (Yahoo! News, February 8, 2013).
• "US population reaches pi milestone, officials say" (Yahoo! News, August 14, 2012).
• "Is Algebra Necessary?" by Andrew Hacker (New York Times, July 29, 2012). See also responses here and here.
• "Why your kids can’t add without a calculator" (National Post, July 2, 2012).