Merry Late Christmas - 43rd Marsenne Prime Found

Two months ago, on December 24, Marsenne.org announced that the 43rd Marsenne Prime number, currently the largest known prime number, was discovered.

Read their press release: http://www.mersenne.org/30402457.htm

Read MathWorld's report: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/news/2005-12-25/mersenne-43/

Chronicle of Higher Education

The Chronicle of Higher Education is now available online at: http://ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca:2048/login?url=http://chronicle.com.

Its RSS feed comes highly recommended - it's a good way to stay up-to-date with higher ed issues. You will need to take out the ".ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca" i.e.:
http://chronicle.com.ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca/news/rss.xml --> http://chronicle.com/news/rss.xml