
Brian Hayes
Brian Hayes is a former editor and columnist for American Scientist. His most recent book is Foolproof, and Other Mathematical Meditations (MIT Press, 2017).
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- Reading Mathematics
- Writing History
- Exemplary Science
- "A Pixel Is Not a Little Square!"
- Chalkophilia
- Making Sense of the Brain
- Mathematical Mosaics
- Math with Attitude
- Moonshot Computing
- Over the Edge
- Computer Vision and Computer Hallucinations
- Programs and Probability
- Playing in Traffic
- Crawling toward a Wiser Web
- The 100-Billion-Body Problem
- Cultures of Code
- Clarity in Climate Modeling
- Pencil, Paper, and Pi
- Belles lettres Meets Big Data
- Delving into Deep Learning
- Uniquely Me!
- Programming Your Quantum Computer
- The Monodromy of Love
- New Dilemmas for the Prisoner
- The Math of Segregation
- What's in Brian's Brain?
- Crinkly Curves
- First Links in the Markov Chain
- Sparring with the Great Geometer
- Father of Fractals
- Imitation of Life
- The Science of Sticky Spheres
- A Portrait of the Economy
- Alice and Bob in Cipherspace
- The Manifest Destiny of Artificial Intelligence
- Computation and the Human Predicament
- Mathematical Road Trips
- Pixels or Perish
- A Box of Universe
- Murkiness in Numerical Computing
- Flip Flop Fly Ball
- An Adventure in the Nth Dimension
- Leave the Driving to It
- Making Sense of the World
- A Life of Serial Self-Invention
- Quasirandom Ramblings
- Bit Lit
- The Memristor
- Flights of Fancy
- Machines, Minds and Madness
- Electrifying Language
- The Paisley Leopard
- Land Portraits
- Never a Dull Number
- Hip-Hop Physics
- Viva Voce
- Family Album
- The Higher Arithmetic
- Crosshatching in the Crosshairs
- The Best Bits
- An Epistolary Episode
- Everything Is Under Control
- Writing Math on the Web
- Automation on the Job
- Books-A-Million
- Getting Your Quarks in a Row
- Calculemus!
- Monty Hall Redux
- Programs and Probabilities
- The Britney Spears Problem
- Art in Code
- Wagering with Zeno
- Computational Photography
- Semiconductor Real Estate
- Accidental Algorithms
- Computing in a Parallel Universe
- Sorting Out the Genome
- A Mathematician's Trajectory
- How Many Ways Can You Spell V1@gra?
- Calculating the Weather
- Fat Tails
- A Paradise of Choice?
- Foolproof
- Short takes on three books
- Up a Lazy River
- Connecting the Dots
- Goodness, Gracious, Great Balls of Gaia!
- The Semicolon Wars
- Gauss's Day of Reckoning
- Short takes on six books
- Reverse Engineering
- Short takes on three books
- Unwed Numbers
- Coping with Selfishness
- Natural and Unnatural Disasters
- Group Theory in the Bedroom
- Life Cycles
- Genius Unappreciated
- Rumours and Errours
- Anthropology for Mathematicians
- Dennis Flanagan, 1919-2005
- Why W?
- Naming Names
- Ode to the Code
- Structures
- Bugs That Count
- Viva La Ciencia
- Undisciplined Science
- g-OLOGY
- Small-Town Story
- Qwerks of History
- A Lucid Interval
- In Search of the Optimal Scumsucking Bottomfeeder
- The Spectrum of Riemannium
- Resistance Is Feudal
- Spam, Spam, Spam, Lovely Spam
- On the Complex Plane
- The Post-OOP Paradigm
- On the Threshold
- Science on the Farther Shore
- Follow the Money
- The Search for Rigor
- The World According to Wolfram
- Matter in Motion
- Terabyte Territory
- The Easiest Hard Problem
- Statistics of Deadly Quarrels
- Third Base
- The Computer and the Dynamo
- From Motricity to Mentality
- Randomness as a Resource
- Computing Comes to Life
- In Postmodernist Territory
- How to Count
- The Weatherman
- Dividing the Continent
- The World in a Spin
- On the Teeth of Wheels
- "The Nerds Have Won"
- Graph Theory in Practice: Part II
- Graph Theory in Practice: Part I
- Experimental Lamarckism
- Computational Creationism
- The Vibonacci Numbers
- Seeing between the Pixels
- The Web of Words
- E Pluribus Unum
- Identity Crisis
- Bit Rot
- How to Avoid Yourself
- Prototeins
- Collective Wisdom
- The Invention of the Genetic Code