MathChat Archives
Frank Morgan’s Math Chat Archives
Math Chat started as a live call-in cable TV show in Williamstown (1996-97, January 2000) and Princeton (1997-98), ran as a regular column in The Christian Science Monitor (1996-1998), continued on the Mathematical Association of America website, and finally became The Math Chat Book with a $1000 Math Chat Quest. Most of the columns are archived here.
Baseball’s Million Dollar Prize and Goodbye
May 2, 2002
Vanishing From the Face of the Earth
April 18, 2002
Arranging Marriages
April 4, 2002
Proofs for Everyone
March 21, 2002
One Random Person
March 7, 2002
Guessing the Red Card
February 21, 2002
The Loudest Sound
February 7, 2002
Palindromic Years
January 17, 2002
If We Had Two Suns
January 3, 2002
Once in a Blue Moon
December 20, 2001
World Series
December 6, 2001
Inexplicable Cheeseburgers
November 15, 2001
The Ideal TV
November 1, 2001
Space Curving Back
October 18, 2001
Childhood Math Memories
October 4, 2001
Bridge Voids
September 18, 2001
Fractional Magic Square
September 6, 2001
Pizza Pie
August 16, 2001
Berkeley Hills
August 2, 2001
Numbers on your Computer Screen
July 19, 2001
Married Couples at a Party
July 5, 2001
A Mathematician at Heaven’s Gate
June 21, 2001
Bees and Beijing in One Hour?
June 7, 2001
Making Change
May 17, 2001
The Largest Number
May 3, 2001
293 Ways to Make Change for a Dollar
April 19, 2001
Old Coins
April 5, 2001
Russian Roulette
March 15, 2001
Our Favorite Tax
March 1, 2001
Fibonacci Surprise
February 15, 2001
Well Arranged Sequences
February 1, 2001
Repeating Digits
January 18, 2001
Square Earth
January 4, 2001
Surprising Math
December 21, 2000
Ordering Candidates on Ballots
December 7, 2000
Presidential Election and the Length of the Shortest Piece
November 16, 2000
How to Split Your Vote
November 2, 2000
Should Nader Voters Flip a Coin?
October 19, 2000
Chance of Bank Balance $0.00
October 5, 2000
Too Much to be a Coincidence?
September 21, 2000
How to Play Fair With Loaded Dice
September 7, 2000
Magician’s Solution From Math Olympiad
August 17, 2000
US Third in Math Olympiad
August 3, 2000
Which One Is Older?
July 20, 2000
The Winning Voting System
July 6, 2000
The Ideal Voting System
June 22, 2000
Primes and Composites
June 1, 2000
Millionaire’s Paradox
May 18, 2000
Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
May 4, 2000
“Average” Temperature
April 20, 2000
Pens and Crystals
April 6, 2000
Beeneet Kothari Wins First $1000 National High School Calculus Student Award
March 29, 2000
Double Bubble Conjecture Proved
March 18, 2000
Replacing Iowa and New Hampshire
March 2, 2000
Brightest Moon for Thousands of Millennia?
February 17, 2000
Mathematics Meetings Feature Proof of Dodecahedral Conjecture by Undergraduate Sean McLaughlin
February 3, 2000
$1000 High School Calculus Student Award
January 6, 2000
It Can Take a While to Wander Home
December 16, 1999
The Best Two Points in a Square
December 2, 1999
The Real Y2K Problem
November 18, 1999
Once in a Millennium
November 4, 1999
$200 Double Bubble New Challenge
October 7, 1999
Decibels
September 14, 1999
Humanity’s Life Span
September 2, 1999
Guessing the Prime Number Theorem and Treacherous Logic
August 19, 1999
Mathfest ’99: Primes and Prizes
August 5, 1999
Bray Proves Penrose Conjecture in General Relativity
July 15, 1999
Taniyama-Shimura Conjecture Proved
July 1, 1999
Hales Proves Hexagonal Honeycomb Conjecture
June 17, 1999
Why It’s Hard to Fold a Triangle in Half
June 4, 1999
The Mathematician in the Desert
May 20, 1999
Why is the Mathematician So Messy?
May 6, 1999
Identical Calendars for 2000
April 15, 1999
Shortest Enclosures on Surface of Cube
April 1, 1999
Which Countries Are Most Like Stars?
March 18, 1999
Readers Fault One-Page Proof of Fermat
March 4, 1999
One-Page Proof of Fermat?
February 18, 1999
Burning 1-Hour Fuses in 45 Minutes
February 4, 1999
Unlucky in Cards
January 21, 1999
Rolling a Die Until Every Face Has Appeared
January 7, 1999
America’s Favorite Number
December 17, 1998
From Galaxies to Electrons
December 3, 1998
Losing Each Mile But Winning the Marathon
November 19, 1998
One Trip to the Attic
November 5, 1998
Dear Marilyn, About Leap Years
October 14, 1998
The First Mathchat–Father’s Day Puzzler
June 14, 1996
Older MathChats from The Christian Science Monitor
August 20, 1998
Red Herrings And Young Children
July 23, 1998
July 9, 1998
If You Could Design Your Own Numbers
June 25, 1998
June 11, 1998
May 28, 1998
May 14, 1998
Which Three States Meet Three Times?
April 30, 1998
April 16, 1998
March 19, 1998
March 3, 1998
Old Milk Bottles and Hotel Expenses
February 18, 1998
February 3, 1998
January 16, 1998
January 2, 1998
December 19, 1997
December 5, 1997
November 14, 1997
October 31, 1997
Double Bubbles And Presidential Elections
October 25, 1997
October 17, 1997
October 3, 1997
September 19, 1997
Zeros, Ping-Pong Balls, And Acceleration
September 5, 1997
August 22, 1997
August 8, 1997
July 25, 1997
July 11, 1997
June 27, 1997
June 13, 1997
May 23, 1997
May 9, 1997
April 25, 1997
April 11, 1997
March 28, 1997
March 14, 1997
February 28, 1997
February 14, 1997
January 31, 1997
January 17, 1997
Presidential Elections, Challenges of the Years
November 8, 1996
October 11, 1996
September 27, 1996
Prime Number Digits
September 13, 1996
Marbles and Change
August 30, 1996
August 16, 1996
July 19, 1996
If a Ball Goes Up, When Must It Come Down?
July 5, 1996
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