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Devlin's Angle by Keith Devlin: What's the Real Story?
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How Euler Did It by Ed Sandifer: Sums of Powers
Card Colm by Colm Mulcahy: Two Summer Difference Certainties
Resources for Undergraduate Research by Sarah Adams and Darren Narayan: Starting and Maintaining an Academic Year Undergraduate Research Program
The Mathematical Tourist by Ivars Peterson: From Hexagon to Square
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June 2009

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Fibonacci numbers make multiple appearances on this model of a pinecone. The numbered labels come in four shades: Can you figure out the rule behind the shading? What patterns are there in the colors of the pinecone’s bracts? For more, see A Mathematical Mosaic (MAA). Image by Henry Segerman; rendering by Bathsheba Grossman. Courtesy of Ravi Vakil.

MathFest 2009: Ravi Vakil to Deliver the Earl Raymond Hedrick Lecture Series
Classical structure in modern geometry, or modern structure in classical geometry
Lecture 1: The mathematics of doodling
Lecture 2: Murphy's Law in geometry
Lecture 3: Generalizing the cross ratio: the space of n points on the projective line

2009 U.S. International Mathematical Olympiad Team Announced
Register for MathFest, August 6-8 2009
Math in the News:: ICM 2010 to Spotlight Ramanujan; Math in the News Archives
2009 MAA Officer Election Results
MAA Book:: A Mathematical Mosaic
Calling All Photographers:: We’re looking for math-related images for our “Found Math” feature. Send them, along with a brief description, to editor@maa.org. FOUND MATH GALLERY
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