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Power Down

Is this the twilight’s last gleaming?

Who Controls North America?

Today, even the U.S. government is just one of many players

The End of the End

Revisiting a famous declaration

Siobhan Roberts

Siobhan Roberts is currently a fellow at the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where she is finishing a biography of John Horton Conway, to be published by Bloomsbury in 2014.

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Beautiful Mistakes

Truth or Beauty: Science and the Quest for Order March 2013
Every January, several thousand mathematicians converge in a convention centre for a meeting of minds, rotating through the cities of San Diego, Baltimore, San Antonio, Seattle and Atlanta. This year, back in San Diego, the theme of the massive Joint Mathematics Society (attendees mostly comprising members of the American Mathematical Association and the Mathematical Association of…