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Coin-tossing is generally viewed as the quintessential example of a random process. We focus on some counterintuitive...
Klackers is a game in which players roll dice and then flip down tiles numbered 1 through 9 depending on the sum of t...
The St. Basil Cake In the Greek Orthodox tradition, New Year's Day is also the Feast Day of St. Basil (329-379), who...
To Begin Our Session Have a question? Looking for an old friend? Need a reference for a paper? A popular and often e...
The finite-dimensional variational inequality is a mathematical formulation not widely taught in undergraduate or gra...
Contents 1. Setting the Scene 2. Situation 1: Designing a New Facility 3. Situation 2: Modeling the Gate System 4. S...
Introduction On June 17, 1972 five men broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Water...
Introduction to Pig The object of the jeopardy dice game Pig is to be the first player to reach 100 points. Each tur...
Many real-world applications can be modeled with directed networks and posed as a Traveling Sales Problem (TSP). Howe...
The traditional "birthday problem" considers the probability of two or more people in a group of N sharing a birthday...
Systems of numeration as quantitative languages fill many interesting pages in the history of mathematics. The most ...
With the rapid progress of computer technology and applications, we see graphics everywhere. Special effects artists...
Ptolemy's Theorem states that if a quadrilateral is cyclic, then the product of the lengths of the diagonals equals ...
A glance at the major time periods in the history of mathematics reveals a picture of many dimensions. Inspiring mom...
The dawning of the twenty-first century provides a rare opportunity for looking ahead, a time of speculating, and a ...
Members of my senior mathematics course produced the following article. The course was an attempt by the class to ma...
Imagine that you're stranded on a desert island and want to make a table of logarithms.Why, for heaven's sakes? That...
From the times of the late Renaissance, the theory of equations was characterized in western culture by a high level...
A far-reaching discovery in the late 1700s was to secure, even more so, the closing century's remarkable standing in...
When Hugh Burkhardt visited Teachers College a few years ago, he began his lecture with the following problem: Imagi...
The last couple of decades have witnessed a thorough mixing of mathematics, computers, and biology. This mixing has ...
When your doctor prescribes a new drug or treatment (medical or surgical), your hope is that the condition that requ...
The relatively new field of bioinformatics is undergoing explosive growth. Even before the current impetus provided ...
Despite the advice of his advisor that he choose a more modest problem to solve for his dissertation, a young gradua...
One area of intense contemporary activity in applied mathematics is mathematical biology. Advances in the study of m...
Many people, in one context or another, are familiar with the "small world" phenomenon. You're sitting next to a str...
One of the goals of paleontology is to connect what we learn through fossil records of extinct animals' biology to t...
What might be a numerical fulcrum? Consider the sequence of consecutive positive integers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. ...
Take a glass of water at room temperature and cool it by a few degrees centigrade. Consider the changes in the water...
For a marine biologist strolling along the eastern coast of South America, finding some sea stars (popularly called ...
In the traditional trigonometry course, no problem is more time-honored than the tunnel problem. What is it? A compe...
Demonstrative mathematics, dating from the Early Greek Era, has a long and continuing history, and characterizes the...
What follows is a direct result of the work I have been doing over the past five years on a National Science Foundat...
In this issue of Consortium, we start a series of Henry's Notes that concern the interaction between a real-world si...
The following article was written by several students in my computer graphics class. I have added some diagrams and ...
A famous problem may have many solutions. The primary goal in any encounter with a challenging problem is that of so...

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