by Terrence Bisson | Mar 19, 2013 | Spring 2013
Here is the order for the second round of short talks (according to my random number generator) March 27 Jon Moreland CMJ 38#5: partial fractions, continued March 27 Natalie Battaglia MM 81#1: Buffon’s needle and pi April 10 Brittany Zaccaria CMJ 38#2:...
by Terrence Bisson | Mar 15, 2013 | Spring 2013
National Museum of Mathematics, 11 East 26th Street, New York City MOVES Conference, August 4-6 in New York City M.O.V.E.S. = Mathematics Of Various Entertaining Subjects MOVES Conference Join the National Museum of Mathematics for its first-ever conference on...
by floyd | Feb 27, 2013 | Spring 2013
My presentation today will combine two of my favorite things: music and math. While looking for articles I stumbled upon an article titled “Tuning with Triangles” by Leon Harkleroad published in The College Mathematics Journal, Vol. 39, No. 5 (Nov.,2008)....
by wood | Feb 25, 2013 | Spring 2013
The link to my article, in The College Mathematics Journal, Vol. 38, No. 2 (Mar., 2007), pp. 85-95, can be found here: http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/27646442.pdf?acceptTC=true The article is titled: “Shutting up like a telescope”: Lewis...
by bowers | Feb 20, 2013 | Spring 2013
I will be talking about Expected Value tomorrow for my math talk. Some key words that you should be familiar with are: data set, mean, and probability distribution (discrete and continuous). The url to my article “Caps and Robbers” is below....
by zaccaria | Feb 19, 2013 | Spring 2013
I am doing my first talk about the theory/history behind the game of Sudoku. -BZ
