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Content Teasers for November 2008
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A Dozen Questions about Pascal’s Triangle James Tanton Properties of Pascal's "pyramid" from pizzas and parentheses to personalized polynomials. |
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Sum of Two Cubes in Two
Different Ways Some mathematical twists to the tale of Ramanujan, Hardy, and the famous taxicab number 1729. |
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Bruce Pennington The true story of a misguided mathematician, Dr. Samuel I. Krieger. |
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Mel Wahl An elementary method for differentiating a large class of functions. |
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Mathematics of the Human-Vampire Conflict Dino Sejdinovic An argument on the impossibility of vampires disintegrates when exposed to the harsh light of reason. |
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Perspectives on Mathematics in Art History James Galloway A new angle on the mathematics of perspective drawing. |
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Mathematics in the Mountains: The Park City Mathematics Institute Andrew J. Bernoff An annual gathering of students, researchers, and educators in a breath-taking and mind-expanding environment. |
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Elizabeth D. Russell and Melissa Mauck Students review Infinity and the Mind by Rudy Rucker and To Infinity and Beyond: A Cultural History of the Infinite by Eli Maor. |
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Alison Frane and Susan Goldstine An artistic way to see how the Fibonacci numbers hang together. |
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Problem Section Andy Liu and Derek Smith |