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• Medieval HarmonyJanuary 25, 1999
• Millennium PrimesJanuary 18, 1999
• Dancing ChaosJanuary 11, 1999
• There was no column for the week of January 4, 1999
• There was no column for the week of December 28, 1998
• Calendar QuirksDecember 21, 1998
• Who's Really No. 1?December 14, 1998
• Prime Treasure HuntDecember 7, 1998
• Birthday SurprisesNovember 23, 1998
• Geometry of WarNovember 16, 1998
• Hunting eNovember 9, 1998
• How to Fix an ElectionNovember 2, 1998
• Unfair DiceOctober 26, 1998
• License CodesOctober 19, 1998
• There was no column for the week of October 12, 1998
• ArithmagicOctober 5, 1998
• Home Run NumbersSeptember 28, 1998
• Calculus Made Easy September 21, 1998
• There was no column for the week of September 14, 1998
• Love's DynamicsSeptember 7, 1998
• There was no column for the week of August 31, 1998
• There was no column for the week of August 24, 1998
• There was no column for the week of August 17, 1998
• There was no column for the week of August 10, 1998
• Magic of Perfect Shuffles August 3, 1998
• Beyond Extra Large (and Ultra Small) July 27, 1998
• Visiting ArtlandiaJuly 20, 1998
• Riding on Square WheelsJuly 13,1998
• Prime TalentJuly 6, 1998
• First DigitsJune 29, 1998
• Prime ListeningJune 22, 1998
• Coins, Art, and Math in North Bay June 15, 1998
• World's Fastest Man June 8, 1998
• There was no column for the week of May 25, 1998
• Cubes of PerfectionMay 18, 1998
• Return of the Mathematical Tourist May 11, 1998
• Cracking a Medieval Code May 4, 1998
• Cattle of the Sun April 20, 1998
• Curves on BaseballsApril 13, 1998
• Math TV: Life by the NumbersApril 6, 1998
• There was no column for the week of March 30, 1998
• A Prime SurpriseMarch 23, 1998
• More than Just a Plane Game March 16, 1998
• There was no column for the week of March 9, 1998
• Pick a Digit, Any Digit March 2, 1998
• The Limits of Mathematics February 23, 1998
• The Counterfeit Coin February 16, 1998
• Nine Primes in a Row February 9, 1998
• Digits, Squares, and CyclesFebruary 2, 1998
• Truel in the Sun January 26, 1998
• Picking WinnersJanuary 19, 1998
• Murder and the Economist January 12, 1998
• From Starting Line to Ancient Angle January 5, 1998
• There was no column for the week of December 29, 1997
• Mailbox: Magic Dice, Monopoly, and Contra Dancing December 22, 1997
• A Penny SurpriseDecember 15, 1997
• The Amazing ABC Conjecture December 8, 1997
• Getting Slammed in Tennis December 1, 1997
• Circles of DissonanceNovember 24, 1997
• A Progression of Primes November 17, 1997
• Springing a Physical Surprise November 10, 1997
• Knotted WalksNovember 3, 1997
• Names for Numbers October 27,1997
• No MathTrek for October 20th
• Fractions, Cycles, and Time October 13, 1997
• Tricky Dice October 6, 1997
• Who's Really Ahead? September 29, 1997
• Tickling the Mind September 22, 1997
• Deep in the Jungles September 15, 1997
• Martin Gardner's Lucky Number September 8, 1997
• There were no columns for the month of August 1997
• Cutting Corners July 28, 1997
• A Glitch in Time July 21, 1997
• The Ladies' Diary July 14, 1997
• The Traveling Monkey July 7, 1997
• Playing with Ruth-Aaron Pairs June 30, 1997
• Contradancing and Matrices June 16, 1997
• Monopoly Dollars and Sense June 9, 1997
• Prime GapsJune 2, 1997
• Mirror Bounces May 26, 1997
• Around the Dartboard May 19, 1997
• Pentium Bug Revisited May 12, 1997
• Fun and Games in Nevada May 5, 1997
• There was no column for the week of April 28, 1997
• There was no column for the week of April 21, 1997
• Drums that Sound Alike April 14, 1997
• Sprouts for Spring April 7, 1997
• Flight of the Bumblebee March 31,1997
• Winning Partitions March 24, 1997
• Spreading Rumors March 17, 1997
• A Taste for M&M's March 10, 1997
• Billiards in the Round March 3, 1997
• From Counting to Writing February 24, 1997
• Curves and Lying Calculators February 17, 1997
• Pascal's Fractals February 10, 1997
• ArcadiaFebruary 3, 1997
• A Perfect Collaboration January 27, 1997
• Fragments of the Past January 20, 1997
• Hankies, Snarks, and Triangles January 13, 1997
• Maps of Many Colors January 6, 1997
• There was no column for the week of December 30, 1996
• Prime Theorem of the Century December 23, 1996
• Another Record Prime December 16, 1996
• Leonardo, Water, and Math December 9, 1996
• Fair Play and Dreidel December 2, 1996
• Pennies in a Tray November 25, 1996
• Next in Line November 18, 1996
• From Number to Formula November 11, 1996
• Problem at the Art Gallery November 4, 1996
• There was no column for the week of October 28, 1996
• Rolling with Reuleaux October 21, 1996
• More than Magic Squares October 14, 1996
• Paul Erdos: An Infinity of Problems October 7, 1996
• Recycling Topology September 30, 1996
• Comedy Tonight -- Math Style! September 23, 1996
• Mining Prime Terrain September 16, 1996
• Trouble with Wild-Card Poker September 9, 1996
• Beyond the Ellipse September 2, 1996
• Math Camp August 26, 1996
• Tricky Crossings August 19, 1996
• Match Sticks in the Summer August 12, 1996
• Old and New ArithmeticAugust 5, 1996
• Mystic Chaos: A Preliminary Report July 29, 1996
• DNA Adds Up July 22
• Waring Experiments July 15, 1996
• Computing with the EDSAC, Part 2 July 8, 1996
• Computing with the EDSAC, Part 1 July 1, 1996
• There was no column for the week of June 24, 1996.
• DNA, Computers, and Killer Apps June 17, 1996
• Groups, Graphs, and Paul Erdos June 10, 1996
• Fashioning a World Brain June 3, 1996
• Math and Music Education May 29, 1996
• Cracking the Myth of Ball Control May 20, 1996
• Toward a Fairer Expansion Draft May 13, 1996
• There was no column the week of May 6.
• Frank's World: Math on Cable April 29, 1996
• A Catalog of Random Bits April 22, 1996
• Mating Games and Lizards April 15, 1996
• Soap Films and Grid Walks April 8, 1996
• Euclid's Fourteenth Book April 1, 1996
• Pythagoras Plays Ball March 25, 1996
• Computing in a Surreal Realm March 18, 1996
• A Passion for Pi March 11, 1996
• The Cow in the Classroom March 4, 1996
• Calculation and the Chess Master February 26, 1996