Supplements to Articles Published in
Mathematics Magazine
2005
- Supplement to Dirichlet: His Life, His Principle, and His Problem, by Pamela Gorkin and Joshua Smith in the October 2005 issue of the Magazine: A Mathematica package file, which can be used to show solutions to the Dirichlet problem on the unit disk with rational boundary data.
- Supplement to How to Maximize Your Chances of Getting a Color Match,, by Ramin Naimi and Roberto Carlos Pelayo in the April 2005 issue of the Magazine:A PDF file containing proofs of some of the more technical theorems.
2004
- Supplement to Simpson Symmetrized and Surpassed, by Daniel J. Velleman in the February 2004 issue of the Magazine: A Mathematica notebook that implements all the algorithms from the article.
2003
- Supplement to Means Appearing in Geometric Figures, by Howard
Eves in the October 2003 issue of the Magazine: An animated
demonstration (in Geometer's Sketchpad) of the means in a trapezoid, by Shannon Umberger
Patton.
- Supplement to Symmetric Polynomials in the Work of Newton and
Lagrange, by Greg St. George in the December 2003 issue of the
Magazine: The author's translation of sections 30 and 31 of
Lagrange's Reflexions sur la Resolution
Algebrique des Equations.
2002
- Supplements to Plotting the Escape--An Animation of Parabolic Bifurcations in the Mandelbrot Set , by Anne Burns, in the April 2002 issue of Mathematics Magazine: Plotting orbits and Viewing the animation.
2001
- Supplement to Two Reflected Analyses
of Lights Out, by Óscar Martín-Sánchez and
Cristóbal Pareja-Flores, in the October 2001 issue of
Mathematics Magazine.
- Supplement to The Track of a Bicycle
Back Tire, by Steven R. Dunbar, Reinier J. C. Bosman, and Sander
E. M. Nooij, in the October 2001 issue of Mathematics
Magazine.
- Envelopes of Zags, a supplement to
ZigZags, by Peter Giblin, in the October 2001 issue of
Mathematics Magazine. (Requires a Java-enabled web browser.)
- Supplement to the Proof Without Words, "The Pythagorean
Theorem," by Jose Gomez in the April 2001 issue of Mathematics
Magazine: an interactive
display. (Requires a Java-enabled web browser.)
2000
- Supplements to the article "A Postmodern View of Fractions and the
Reciprocals of Fermat Primes" by Rafe Jones and Jan Pearce, in the
April 2000 issue of Mathematics Magazine:
- Code to draw graphs of fractions, in
Qbasic.
- Code to draw graphs of fractions with
Matlab.
- Code to draw an array of four graphs of fractions with
Matlab.
1999
- Supplements to the article "Apollonian Cubics: An Application of
Group Theory to a Problem in Euclidean Geometry,", by
Paris Pamfilos and Apostolos Thoma, in the December 1999 issue of
Mathematics Magazine:
- Computer
Programs for further study of the Apollonian cubics.
- Supplement to the Note "Proof Without Words: Geometry of
Subtraction Formulas" by Leonard M. Smiley in the December 1999
issue of Mathematics Magazine:
- Supplements to the article "Sample Calculus" by Walter
G. Spunde and Richard D. Neidinger in the June 1999 issue of
Mathematics Magazine:
- Supplements to the article "Woven Rope Friezes" by Frank
Farris, Santa Clara University, and Dr. Nils Kr. Rossing, in the
February 1999 issue of Mathematics Magazine:
- Images of rope friezes
- Java Applet illustrating
how to construct patterns of this type.
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