{"id":329,"date":"2019-12-31T00:01:09","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T05:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/featurecolumn\/?p=329"},"modified":"2022-03-02T16:29:41","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T21:29:41","slug":"david-austin-column-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathvoices.ams.org\/featurecolumn\/2019\/12\/31\/david-austin-column-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"David Austin&#8217;s Column Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"headlineText\">David Austin&#8217;s Column Archive<\/h1>\n<p>Here are David Austin&#8217;s older Feature Columns. David&#8217;s newest columns may be found <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/featurecolumn\/category\/david-austin\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>March 2021 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ams.org\/publicoutreach\/feature-column\/fc-2021-03\">Lost (and found) in space<\/a> (Math and the Sciences, Math and Technology, Linear Algebra)<\/li>\n<li>October 2020 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/publicoutreach\/feature-column\/fc-2020-10\">Pooling strategies for COVID-19 testing<\/a> (Math and the Sciences, Math and Nature, Probability and Statistics)<\/li>\n<li>June 2020 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/publicoutreach\/feature-column\/fc-2020-06\">Transmitting Data with Polar Codes<\/a> (Math and Technology, Probability and Statistics)<\/li>\n<li>February 2020 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/publicoutreach\/feature-column\/fc-2020-02\">What&#8217;s the 411?<\/a> (History of Mathematics, Math and Technology)<\/li>\n<li>December 2019 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/publicoutreach\/feature-column\/fc-2019-12\">You&#8217;re in for a shock<\/a> (Calculus and Analysis, Differential Equations)<\/li>\n<li>August 2019 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/publicoutreach\/feature-column\/fc-2019-08\">Puppies, Kittens, and the Golden Ratio<\/a> (Discrete Math and Combinatorics, Algebra)<\/li>\n<li>March 2019 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/publicoutreach\/feature-column\/fc-2019-03\">Non-negative Matrix Factorizations<\/a> (Math and Technology, Linear Algebra)<\/li>\n<li>December 2018 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/publicoutreach\/feature-column\/fc-2018-12\">Upgrading Slums Using Topology<\/a> (Geometry and Topology, Game Theory and Social Choice, Discrete Math and Combinatorics)<\/li>\n<li>August 2018 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/publicoutreach\/feature-column\/fc-2018-08\">Getting in Sync<\/a> (Math and Nature, Calculus and Analysis)<\/li>\n<li>March 2018 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/publicoutreach\/feature-column\/fc-2018-03\">Neural Nets and How They Learn<\/a> (Discrete Math and Combinatorics, Math and Technology)<\/li>\n<li>December 2017 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/publicoutreach\/feature-column\/fc-2017-12\">How to Differentiate with a Computer<\/a> (Calculus and Analysis)<\/li>\n<li>August 2017 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/publicoutreach\/feature-column\/fc-2017-08\">Untangling Your Square Dance<\/a> (Geometry and Topology, Algebra)<\/li>\n<li>March 2017 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/publicoutreach\/feature-column\/fc-2017-03\">Patterns in Permutations<\/a> (Discrete Math and Combinatorics, Math and the Sciences)<\/li>\n<li>December 2016 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/publicoutreach\/feature-column\/fc-2016-12\">Finding Holes in the Data<\/a> (Geometry and Topology, Math and Technology)<\/li>\n<li>August 2016 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/publicoutreach\/feature-column\/fc-2016-08\">Game. SET. Polynomial.<\/a> (Discrete Math and Combinatorics, Algebra)<\/li>\n<li>March 2016 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/publicoutreach\/feature-column\/fc-2016-03\">Knot Quandaries Quelled by Quandles<\/a> (Algebra, Geometry and Topology)<\/li>\n<li>December 2015 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/publicoutreach\/feature-column\/fc-2015-12\">Petals, Flowers and Circle Packings<\/a> (Calculus and Analysis, Geometry and Topology)<\/li>\n<li>August 2015 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/publicoutreach\/feature-column\/fc-2015-08\">Game. SET. Line.<\/a> (Discrete Math and Combinatorics, Geometry and Topology, Linear Algebra)<\/li>\n<li>March 2015 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/publicoutreach\/feature-column\/fc-2015-03\">The Stable Marriage Problem and School Choice<\/a> (Game Theory and Social Choice, Discrete Math and Combinatorics)<\/li>\n<li>December 2014 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/publicoutreach\/feature-column\/fc-2014-12\">How to Grow and Prune a Classification Tree<\/a> (Discrete Math and Combinatorics, Math and the Sciences)<\/li>\n<li>August 2014 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/publicoutreach\/feature-column\/fc-2014-08\">Congressional Redistricting and Gerrymandering<\/a> (Game Theory and Social Choice, Geometry and Topology, Discrete Math and Combinatorics)<\/li>\n<li>March 2014 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/publicoutreach\/feature-column\/fc-2014-03\">How to Make a 3D Print<\/a> (Geometry and Topology, Math and Technology)<\/li>\n<li>November 2013 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/publicoutreach\/feature-column\/fc-2013-11\">Fedorov&#8217;s Five Parallelohedra<\/a> (Geometry and Topology)<\/li>\n<li>August 2013 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/publicoutreach\/feature-column\/fc-2013-08\">The Frobenius Problem: How I bought Chicken McNuggets with exact change<\/a> (Calculus and Analysis, Discrete Math and Combinatorics)<\/li>\n<li>March 2013 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/publicoutreach\/feature-column\/fc-2013-03\">Using Projective Geometry to Correct a Camera<\/a> (Linear Algebra, Geometry and Topology)<\/li>\n<li>December 2012 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/publicoutreach\/feature-column\/fc-2012-12\">Who&#8217;s Number 1? Hodge Theory Will Tell Us<\/a> (Discrete Math and Combinatorics, Linear Algebra)<\/li>\n<li>August 2012 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/publicoutreach\/feature-column\/fc-2012-08\">It&#8217;s a Small World After All<\/a> (Discrete Math and Combinatorics, Math and Technology)<\/li>\n<li>March 2012 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/publicoutreach\/feature-column\/fc-2012-03\">A (Very Short) Detour for the Traveling Salesman<\/a> (Discrete Math and Combinatorics)<\/li>\n<li>December 2011 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/publicoutreach\/feature-column\/fc-2011-12\">Arrangements and Duality or How I Learned to Slice a Ham and Cheese Sandwich<\/a> (Geometry and Topology, Math and Technology)<\/li>\n<li>August 2011 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/publicoutreach\/feature-column\/fc-2011-08\">The Shadow Knows: How to measure time with a sundial<\/a> (Math and Nature, Math and the Sciences)<\/li>\n<li>March 2011 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/publicoutreach\/feature-column\/fcarc-dna-puzzle\">Aligning Sequence Reads to Assemble the Genome Puzzle<\/a> (Math and Technology, Math and the Sciences)<\/li>\n<li>December 2010 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/publicoutreach\/feature-column\/fcarc-shuffle\">How Many Times Do I Have to Shuffle This Deck?<\/a> (Probability and Statistics)<\/li>\n<li>August 2010 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/publicoutreach\/feature-column\/fcarc-multiplication\">Multiplication is Easier When It&#8217;s Complex<\/a> (Math and Technology, Discrete Math and Combinatorics)<\/li>\n<li>March 2010 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/publicoutreach\/feature-column\/fcarc-harmonic\">Moving Remy in Harmony: Pixar&#8217;s Use of Harmonic Functions<\/a> (Math and Technology, Math and the Arts, Differential Equations)<\/li>\n<li>December 2009 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/publicoutreach\/feature-column\/fcarc-kanoodle\">Puzzling Over Exact Cover Problems<\/a> (Discrete Math and Combinatorics)<\/li>\n<li>August 2009 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/publicoutreach\/feature-column\/fcarc-svd\">We Recommend a Singular Value Decomposition<\/a> (Linear Algebra)<\/li>\n<li>March 2009 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/publicoutreach\/feature-column\/fcarc-synthesizer\">No Static at All: Frequency modulation and music synthesis<\/a> (Math and the Arts, Math and Technology, Calculus and Analysis)<\/li>\n<li>December 2008 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/publicoutreach\/feature-column\/fcarc-stern-brocot\">&#8220;Trees, Teeth, and Time: The mathematics of clock making<\/a> (Algebra, Discrete Math and Combinatorics)<\/li>\n<li>August 2008 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/publicoutreach\/feature-column\/fcarc-percolation\">Percolation: Slipping through the Cracks<\/a> (Probability and Statistics)<\/li>\n<li>March 2008 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/publicoutreach\/feature-column\/fcarc-random\">Random Numbers: Nothing Left to Chance<\/a> (Probability and Statistics, Algebra)<\/li>\n<li>December 2007 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/publicoutreach\/feature-column\/fcarc-pi\">Pulling Digits out of Pi<\/a> (Geometry and Topology, Calculus and Analysis)<\/li>\n<li>September 2007 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/publicoutreach\/feature-column\/fcarc-image-compression\">Image Compression: Seeing What&#8217;s Not There<\/a> (Math and Technology, Linear Algebra)<\/li>\n<li>March 2007 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/publicoutreach\/feature-column\/fcarc-knots-dna\">That Knotty DNA<\/a> (Math and the Sciences, Geometry and Topology)<\/li>\n<li>December 2006 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/publicoutreach\/feature-column\/fcarc-pagerank\">How Google Finds Your Needle in the Web&#8217;s Haystack<\/a> (Math and Technology, Discrete Math and Combinatorics, Linear Algebra)<\/li>\n<li>August 2006 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/publicoutreach\/feature-column\/fcarc-voronoi\">Voronoi Diagrams and a Day at the Beach<\/a> (Geometry and Topology)<\/li>\n<li>March 2006 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/publicoutreach\/feature-column\/fcarc-kissing\">When Kissing Involves Trigonometry<\/a> (Geometry and Topology, History of Mathematics)<\/li>\n<li>December 2005 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/publicoutreach\/feature-column\/fcarc-ribbons\">Penrose Tilings Tied up in Ribbons<\/a> (Geometry and Topology)<\/li>\n<li>August 2005 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/publicoutreach\/feature-column\/fcarc-penrose\">Penrose Tiles Talk Across Miles<\/a> (Geometry and Topology)<\/li>\n<li>February 2005 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/publicoutreach\/feature-column\/fcarc-population-center\">The Center of Population of the United States<\/a> (Geometry and Topology)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Austin&#8217;s Column Archive Here are David Austin&#8217;s older Feature Columns. 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