Knot 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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A Mathematical Model to Predict Award Winners article available 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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One, 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
Dale Hathaway
Don't believe everything you read in the paper, especially the graphics. Just because the information conveyed by a graph will often be remembered long after the rest of the article is forgotten, should it be?
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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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Can 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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Math 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. |