What’s cool—pick of the week

Try: http://www.indiana.edu/~rcapub/

What language would that be, you wonder, if not Saganese?

R&C offers up to the mathematically fluent and the mathematically challenged equal dishes of feature and fact about the power of mathematics in our daily lives (“Math Plays the Market”); a commentary on why American students are having so much trouble learning math; a look at VIGRE (Vertical Integration of Research and Education in Mathematical Sciences); and an inky plot of mystery surrounding Galileo’s work, among other topics with IU connections.