Steve Abbott
Bruce Torrence
Editors

November 2009: Table of Contents

Page 5 — A Conversation with Masha Gessen
Stephen Abbot

Page 8 — Getting a Handle on Poincaré
Jesse Johnson

Page 12 — Gaussian Guesswork (or why 1.19814023473559220744…is such a beautiful number)
Adrian Rice

Page 16 — Stochastic Calculus and the Nobel Prize Winning Black-Scholes Equation
Frank Morgan

Page 19 — The Circle-Squaring Problem Decomposed
Pamela Pierce, John Ramsay, Hannah Roberts, Nancy Tinoza, Jeffrey Willert, and Wenyuan Wu

Page 22 — Soggy Jogging in Flatland: A 2D Analysis of Running in the Rain
Dank Hailman and Bruce Torrents

Page 25 — Tricky Factoring, Pythagorean Triples, and Heron’s Formula
Dan Pritikin and Gary Yane

Page 28 — Book Reviews
Reviews by Vagn Lundsgaard Hansen and Peter Schumer

Page 30 — The Playground
Derek Smith

Aftermath: A Politician's Apology (click to read and respond)
Steve Kennedy

 


Math Horizons Editors Past and Present: Former editors Steve Kennedy, Deanna Haunsperger, Art Benjamin, Jenny Quinn, and current editors Steve Abbott and Bruce Torrence together at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Washington, D.C.