Margaret Wertheim
Crocheting the Hyperbolic Plane: An Interview with David Henderson and Daina Taimina
Into non-Euclidean space, with hook and yarn
Issue 16 / The Sea / Winter 2004–2005
The Mathematics of Paper Folding: An Interview with Robert Lang
Adventures in computational origami
Issue 17 / Laughter / Spring 2005
Evolving out of the Virtual Mud: An Interview with Ed Burton
The imaginary Galapagos of sodaconstructor
Issue 19 / Chance / Fall 2005
Where the Wild Things Are: An Interview with Ken Millett
Untangling the mathematical complexities of knot theory
Issue 20 / Ruins / Winter 2005–2006
Captured Lightning
The fractal beauty of Lichtenberg Figures
Issue 21 / Electricity / Spring 2006
Things That Think: An Interview with Nicholas Gessler
The shape of pre-silicon computing
Issue 21 / Electricity / Spring 2006
Why Things Don’t Fall Down: An Interview with Robert Connelly
The forms and functions of tensegrity
Issue 23 / Fruits / Fall 2006
Menger’s Spongiform Encephalopathy
Building a fractal house of cards
Issue 24 / Shadows / Winter 2006–2007
The Ecology of the Termite Gut: An Interview with Jared Leadbetter
Chowing down the house
Issue 25 / Insects / Spring 2007
Web Media
Watching spiders watch TV
Issue 25 / Insects / Spring 2007
The Illusionistic Magic of Geometric Figuring
Virtual reality, medieval-style
Issue 26 / Magic / Summer 2007
Figuring Life
Redrawing Darwin’s evolutionary tree
Issue 27 / Mountains / Fall 2007
Building a Better Snowflake: An Interview with Kenneth Libbrecht
Something in the air
Issue 29 / Sloth / Spring 2008
The Reef Builders: An Interview with Nancy Knowlton
The vanishing world of coral
Issue 30 / The Underground / Summer 2008
Hunting a Mathematical Snark
The sublime symmetry of the Monster
Issue 34 / Testing / Summer 2009
A Difficult Pancake: An Interview with Hinke Osinga and Bernd Krauskopf
Making sense of the Lorenz Manifold
Issue 36 / Friendship / Winter 2009–2010
God’s Number
Solving the mathematical puzzle of the Rubik’s Cube
Issue 39 / Learning / Fall 2010
Day Four
Circlon synchronicity
Issue 44 / 24 Hours / Winter 2011-2012
The Fax Numbers of the Beast, and Other Mathematical Sports: An Interview with Neil Sloane
The online encyclopedia of integer sequences
Issue 57 / Catastrophe / Spring 2015