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Content Teasers for April 2005
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Divided Stan Wagon & Carlo Séquin A frozen tribute to topology. See this year's snow sculpture entry for Team Minnesota---a triply-twisted and knotted Möbius band.
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Mathematical Model to Predict Award Winners
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online Rebecca L. Sparks & David Abrahamson Is it possible to look at the information for each candidate and combine it in such a way that we an predict how the voters will rank the candidates? For the Cy Young Award, the answer appears to be yes.
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| Chance
Encounters: Sporting Chances Mark Schilling For soccer fans and baseball conspiracy theorists. Can anything be done to decrease the number of soccer games ending in ties? Are the number of seven-game World Series statistically significant?
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Two, Three, ...Jump: A Model of the Long Jump and Other Field Events Alan Levine Explore the mathematical implications for the "best-of-three" scoring systems commonly used in track and field competitions. Victory may favor higher variance over consistent performance.
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Graphic
Violence
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| Spotlight:
Mathematics Advanced Study Semesters Serge Tabachnikov Go "abroad" in the United States by attending this mathematically intense semester at the University of Pennsylvania.
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| Alumni
Profiles: Colorado State University-Pueblo Hortensia Soto-Johnson Math Horizons interviews four CSU-Pueblo students: Michael Armijo-Wolfe, multimedia specialist for Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.; Cheri (Brown) Armstrong, analytical chemist for Earth Tech; Mark Main, software engineer for Lockheed Martin; and Leslie (Straayer) Varys, lecture at Colorado University in Denver.
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You Beat the Odds(makers)? John A. Trono Mathematical methods to predict the outcomes of sporting events.
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| Book
Reviews Ché Smith & Michael Flake Read reviews of Teaching Statistics Using Baseball by Jim Albert and How to Win More: Strategies for Increasing a Lottery Win by Norbert Henze and Hans Riedwyl.
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in The Real World: Mathematical Moments from Reality Television Mark MacLean Mathematical knowledge could have given the edge to contestants on Survivor, The Mole, or Real World/Road Rules Battle of the Season.
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| Cardano
and the Case of the Cubic Jeff Adams The fictional account of a mathematical detective.
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| Problem
Section Andy Liu
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| Playing with Matches Eric Libicki A puzzle matching vocabulary shared by mathematics and sports. Both the puzzle and solution are available. |