“[One
of] 15 people who have shaped the global conversation
about science in 2005.”
—
Seed
Magazine (December 2005 / January 2006 issue)
•
Profiles and interviews of Jonathan
Farley
•
Articles
by Jonathan Farley
Profiles
and interviews of Jonathan Farley
MAGAZINES
Spring
2009
Oxford
American Magazine
“A
Finished Revolution? Barack Obama as the Fulfillment of Reconstruction”
»
cover
| article
September
2008
Black Enterprise Magazine
“Putting
the Science in Fiction: Jonathan Farley Takes Math to Hollywood”
»
cover
| table
of contents | article
| all
March
2008
Brookline
Magazine
“Artist
in Residence: Marlena Bocian”
January
10, 2008
Diverse Issues in Higher Education
“Catching
Up with the Class of 2002”
November
2007
Notices
of the American Mathematical Society
“Flatland:
The Movie”
October/November
2007
Symmetry Magazine
“The
Wrong Stuff: When bad physics pop up in a movie or TV show, scientists
try to set things right”
»
article
August
6, 2007
Newsweek Magazine (Russia)
“Hollywood Scientific Films”
» article
| English
translation
May/June
2006
The
Crisis Magazine
“The
Visionaries”
»
cover
| editorial
| article
| page
one
|
page two
| page
three
May/June
2006
FOCUS
“Complex NUMB3RS?”
April
19, 2006
Operations Research and Management Science Today
“Does
1+1=Terror? Using Math Models to Calculate Risks”
January
2006
Reader’s
Digest
(Canada)
“Fact-Finding
Mission”
December
2005 / January 2006
Seed
Magazine
“Year in Science: Icons”
»
cover
| introduction
| article
Summer
2005
The Journal of
Blacks in Higher Education
“Harvard’s
Summa Cum Laude Mathematician Proposes to Use Lattice Theory to Help
Win the War on Terrorism”
March
2, 2005
Technology Review
“Counterterrorism
by Numbers”
October
2-8, 2004
The
Economist Magazine
“Circles of Friends:
What Math Tells Us about Us”
»
cover
| article
page
one
|
article
page two
July
19, 2004
Jet Magazine
“Scientist
of the Year”
»
cover
| article
March/April
2002
Harvard Magazine
“Finding
Work That Works for You”
(profile of six Harvard alumni, including Jonathan Farley
and CNN presenter Soledad O’Brien)
January
3, 2002
Black
Issues in Higher Education
“A
Calculating Career”
June/July
2001
Upscale
Magazine
“Math Genius Receives Fulbright Award”
»
cover
| table
of contents | article
January
2001
Ebony
Magazine
“30
Leaders of the Future”
»
cover
| article
Winter
1998/1999
The Journal of Blacks
in Higher Education
“You Can Count on One
Hand All the Black Mathematics Professors at the Highest-Ranking American
Universities”
March 13,
1989
Jet Magazine
“People”
» cover
| article
NEWSPAPERS AND SELECTED ON-LINE ARTICLES
March
24, 2009
American Association for the Advancement of Science
“In
Conference at AAAS, Experts Detail How Mathematics Can Shed Light
on Terrorism”
November
27, 2007
MSNBC.com
“How
to Build the Perfect Terrorist Cell: Researchers diagram organizations
that avoid crumbling when attacked”
May
13, 2007
The
Jamaica Observer newspaper
(Jamaica)
“How
did Pihl & Son get the Yallahs bridge contract?”
April
15, 2007
The
Jamaica Observer newspaper
(Jamaica)
“UWI
Mona and Math Department mired in backwardness”
The
Jamaica Observer newspaper
(Jamaica)
“Fighting
Crime One Sum at a Time”
January 31, 2007
Jamaica Gleaner newspaper (Jamaica)
“The
Numb3rs Man: UWI Professor Plies His Subject in Hollywood and Counterterrorism”
December
3-9, 2006
Sunday Herald
newspaper (Jamaica)
“Unsolved Problem: UWI Mathematics Department Sinks Further
into Quagmire”
» partial
text with pictures | full
text without pictures
October 17, 2006
Democrat
and Chronicle newspaper (Rochester, New York)
“RIT’s Math
Program Creating Institute to Help Fight Terrorism”
May
12, 2006
Times Higher Education Supplement
“Weapons
of Maths Instruction in War on Terror”
April
18, 2006
The Guardian newspaper (Great Britain)
“Putting
the Science into Fiction”
May
18, 2005
The Daily Telegraph newspaper (Great Britain)
“Scientist’s
Formula to Rid Hollywood of Mad Professors and Sci-Fi Errors”
» page
one | download
image
May
17, 2005
Boston Globe newspaper
“Divide
and Conquer”
» pdf
May
13, 2005
Times Higher Education Supplement
“On
Her Majesty’s Scientific Service”
May
1, 2005
Associated Press
“Harvard
Professor Offers Services As Hollywood Mathematician”
» page
one | page
two
| Other
North American Newspaper Coverage
April
6, 2005
MIT
Tech Talk
“Math
Whiz Fights Terror with Smarts”
» pdf
October 9, 2004
USA Today
“Mathematicians
Offer Help in the War on Terror”
April 18, 2004
Jamaica Gleaner newspaper (Jamaica)
“Science
Whiz with J’can Links Turns Heads in US”
January
10, 2004
Science News Online
“Splitting
Terrorist Cells”
December
5, 2003
The Chronicle of Higher Education
“A
Mathematical Method for Assessing Whether a Terrorist Cell Has Been
Broken”
December
11, 2002
The Nation
“Trent
Lott’s ‘Uptown Klan’”
October
24, 2002
Green Party of the United States
“Greens
Rally Behind Vanderbilt University's Plan to Rename ‘Confederate’
Dorm”
November
19, 2001
Wall Street Journal “Opinion Journal”
“Stupidity
Watch”
September
13-19, 2001
Nashville
Scene
“A
Green Candidate: A Vanderbilt Math Genius Launches a Political Race—
Then Leaves the Country”
August
22-28, 2001
The
Village Voice
“Find
the Issues, Reach the People: The Building of a Blacker Green Party”
August
16, 2001
Roll Call newspaper
“A
Green House? Party Will Back, But Not Recruit, Candidates in Congressional
Races”
August
9, 2001
The Tennessean newspaper
“VU
Professor Plans to Run against Clement As Green Candidate”
December
1998 — January 1999
The Prism
“Young
Black Achievers”
June
17, 1991
Boston
Globe newspaper
“Here’s a Toast to Harvard’s No. 2”
» page
one | page
two
BOOKS
(Note: inclusion does not imply endorsement or veracity of content.)
2008
More
Time for Politics
» cover
| inside
Long-time British Member of Parliament and former member of the prime
minister’s cabinet, Tony
Benn, mentions Jonathan Farley.
2007
Math
Doesn't Suck
(paperback edition)
» cover
and first page
Television actress Danica McKellar asked Jonathan Farley to provide
a quote for her best-selling book.
2006
University
Presidents As Moral Leaders
» chapter
In this anthology, Gordon
Gee, Chancellor of Vanderbilt University, calls neo-Confederates
and supporters of the founder of the Ku Klux Klan, including individuals
who sent at least two Vanderbilt University faculty members and at
least one student death threats, “old friends”.
2005
Change
Is Possible: Stories of Women and Minorities in Mathematics
Patricia
Kenschaft profiles Jonathan Farley.
2005
College
Mathematics for the Managerial, Life, and Social Sciences
» cover
2004
Why
I Love Black Women
Best-selling
author Michael
Eric Dyson discusses Jonathan Farley’s Essence
Magazine essay on young African-American women.
TELEVISION
Black
History Month profile by Janet Lomax (WHEC-TV, Rochester, New
York)
June
2005
Greater Boston
with Emily Rooney
»
“Dot Vader”
(windows media format)
June
2, 2005
Nitebeat
(Comcast CN8, with Emmy Award-winning host Barry Nolan, reaching
6.2 million homes from Maine to Maryland)
»
interview
(windows media format)
February
4, 2005
»
Numb3rs
interview (San Diego television - windows media format)
October
9, 2004
»
Fox News Television
(windows media format)
December
4, 2002
Fox
News Television with Brit Hume
September
11, 2002
BBC World News Television
(invited guest, interviewed live from Ground Zero in New York City)
RADIO
June
29, 2009
BBC
Radio “World Have Your Say”
(Topic: Michael Jackson)
» interview
(mp3)
» associated
BBC Radio “World Have Your Say” blog
April
8, 2009
BBC
Radio “World Have Your Say”
(Topic: The G20 protests in London)
» mp3
(primarily:
7:56-8:10; 15:41-22:57; 32:20-33:55; 40:09-40:37; 41:30-42:23; 48:51-49:30)
February
19, 2009
Make It
Plain with Mark Thompson (Sirius Satellite Radio)
» listen
July
10, 2008
Pacifica Radio
“Green Party Convention Starts amidst Criticism”
» mp3
(4:55-8:00)
April 4, 2008
BBC Radio
Five Live
Fortieth anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King
January
28, 2008
BBC
Radio “World Have Your Say”
Obama and Martin Luther King
Associated
BBC Radio “World Have Your Say” blog Part 1
Associated
BBC Radio “World Have Your Say” blog Part 2
» mp3
September
14, 2007
National
Public Radio “Talk of the Nation”
“Mathematicians Work to Help Track Terrorist Activity”
(Jonathan Farley’s work is mentioned)
» mp3
May 23, 2006
National Public Radio “All
Things Considered”
» mp3
January
20, 2006
The
Tavis Smiley Show
» index
| bio
| this
week
»
mp3
July
12, 2005
Australian
Broadcasting Corporation “Deep End”
“Hollywood Maths”
» pdf
page one | mp3
interview: 10 minutes
June
2005
Australian
Broadcasting Corporation “Triple J ‘Hack’”
» pdf
page one | interview
(11:25-20:00): real player .ram format
June
5, 2005
Digital
Production Buzz
» mp3:
(1:55-2:40 and 32:10-49:00)
December
11-12, 2004
Air America Radio
“So What Else Is News?”
(Interview by Marty
Kaplan)
»
mp3
October
31, 2002
National
Public Radio “Tavis Smiley Show”
“Green Party & African Americans”
» Real
Audio file
»
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Articles
by Jonathan Farley
MAGAZINES
March
2006
Notices
of the American Mathematical Society
“Moment of Proof”
November
2000
Essence
Magazine
“Players and Professors: A Nice Guy Steps up”
» cover
| page
one | page
two
January
2000
The Source
Magazine
“Heroes 2000”
November
1986
A.N.A.L.O.G.
Computing
Magazine
“DLI’s:
Another Minute to Learn”
October
1986
A.N.A.L.O.G.
Computing Magazine
“DLI’s:
A Minute to Learn”
NEWSPAPERS
AND SELECTED ON-LINE CONTENT
December
4, 2009
Morning Star newspaper (Great Britain)
“The
Panther and the Politician”
August
23, 2009
Morning Star newspaper (Great Britain)
“Gunning
for Obama”
May
17, 2009
The Harvard Crimson newspaper (Harvard University)
“Anti-War
Hero”
April
2009
Bridges: The Office of Science and Technology’s Publication
on Science and Technology Policy
(Austrian Embassy in the United States)
“Dorkbot:
Doing ‘Strange Things with Electricity’ from New York to
Linz”
February
27, 2009
Morning Star newspaper (Great Britain)
“Spearing
Satan’s Mistress”
February
13, 2009
The
Tech newspaper (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
“Who
Won the Civil War?”
January
28, 2009
The Harvard Crimson newspaper (Harvard University)
“The
New Black Politics”
January
20, 2009
The Guardian newspaper (Great Britain)
“My
Fellow Americans: What Would You Like to Sneak into Obama’s
Inauguration Speech Today?”
October
28, 2008
The Guardian newspaper (Great Britain) on-line
“Words
As Weapons”
September
26, 2008
Sacramento Bee
newspaper
“My
View: What’s So Wasteful about Funding Discovery?”
July
17, 2008
Democrat
and Chronicle newspaper (Rochester, New York)
“Obama’s
Shifts Could Prove Costly”
» article
June
30, 2008
New
York Times
“Bee
by Bee”
May
14, 2008
Democrat
and Chronicle newspaper (Rochester, New York)
“Fix
Rochester Schools ‘outside the Box”
» article
April
4, 2008
The Guardian newspaper (Great Britain) on-line
“Preventing
the Rise of a ‘Messiah’”
March
17, 2008
The Guardian newspaper (Great Britain) on-line
“Wright
Was Right”
February
23, 2008
Weekend
Times (Singapore)
“I
Have a Nightmare”
January 17, 2008
The
Guardian newspaper (Great Britain)
“I
Have a Nightmare”
November
7, 2007
The Guardian newspaper (Great Britain) on-line
“DNA
of the KKK”
November 10, 2006
The Berkeley Daily Planet newspaper
“Commentary:
Bias against Minorities in Math and Science Continues”
July
9, 2006
San Francisco Chronicle newspaper
“The
NSA is Tap, Tap, Tapping: Spy Agency Misses the Big Picture As It
Targets All the Dots”
June
2006
Bridges: The Office of Science and Technology’s Publication
on Science and Technology Policy
(Austrian Embassy in the United States)
“Kurt
Gödel: What Is Truth? The Strange Story of the Man Who Walked
with Einstein”
May 16, 2006
New
York Times
“The N.S.A.’s Math Problem”
» cartoon
April
23, 2006
San Francisco Chronicle newspaper
“A
Muslim to Be a Martin Luther King? What the American South Can Teach
the Middle East”
Spring
2006
Oxford
Mathematical Institute Newsletter (University of Oxford)
“Terror and
Beauty”
March
12, 2006
San Francisco Chronicle newspaper
“Improving
Math Ed— Bush Right about That: But Where Are the Teachers Coming
from?”
January
8, 2006
San Francisco Chronicle newspaper
“The
Torturer’s Dilemma: The Math on Fire with Fire”
September
20, 2005
Bridges: The Office of Science and Technology’s Publication
on Science and Technology Policy
(Austrian Embassy in the United States)
“Terror
and Beauty— The European Institute for Mathematical Methods
in Counterterrorism”
August
22, 2005
Morning Star newspaper (Great Britain)
“It’s
Your Turn Next”
July
21, 2005
Morning Star newspaper (Great Britain)
“Conspiracy
Theories Chase the Carnage”
December 11, 2004
Morning Star newspaper (Great Britain)
“Three
Stories from the Mourning after: Exit Powell • Banana Republicans
• He’s Dead Now”
October
30, 2004
Morning Star newspaper (Great Britain)
“I’m
Voting Nader”
October
2, 2004
Morning Star newspaper (Great Britain)
“A
Very US Coup”
November
20, 2002
The Tennessean
newspaper
“Remnants
of the Confederacy Glorifying a Time of Tyranny”
» pdf
February
27, 2002; January 29, 2002
National Newspaper
Publishers Association (including Sacramento Observer,
Michigan
Chronicle)
“Black
Power Still Gets Bad Rap”
February 18, 2002
The Guardian newspaper (Great Britain)
“We
Mathematicians Seek a More Elusive Beauty”
January
5, 2002
Time
Magazine
“A
Beautiful Mind: American Pi”
November
17, 2001
The Guardian newspaper (Great Britain)
“Where
Next— Alabama?”
October
3, 2001
National Newspaper Publishers
Association (including Sacramento Observer)
“The
Next Casualty: The Bill of Rights”
September 13, 2001
The Ashland
City Times
“Thank
Goodness Dominion Got Zapped by County”
July
2001
The Tennessean
newspaper and Nashville
City Paper
“County
Failed to Look at Consequences of Plant”
“Corporations
Usurp Democracy in 'Cheat 'em' County”
July
2001
Nashville City Paper
“Battle
of Donelson: Give Greenway the Red Light”
“Slavery
and Segregation Still Need Reparations”
“Why
They Hate Americans—in Great Britain”
(in response, Lewis Goldberg wrote a column advocating the murder of
Jonathan Farley)
BOOKS
2009
Mathematical
Methods in Counterterrorism
» cover
With
a foreword written by the European Union Counterterrorism Coordinator.
2002
Beyond
September 11: An Anthology of Dissent
» cover
A
collection of essays by best-selling authors such as Noam
Chomsky and Naomi
Klein.
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