Mathematics Magazine
October 1996
Featured Articles
The Baseball-Card Collector's QueryJames T. Sandefur
A Natural Classification of Curves and Surfaces with Reflection Properties
Daniel Drucker and Phil Locke
Notes
A Parenthetical Note (to a Paper of Guy)Mark Krusemeyer
Math Bite: Recitation of Large Primes
Richard L. Francis
The Golden Ratio is less than Pi squared divided by 6
James D. Harper
The Proof in the Spirit of Zielberger of an Amazing Identity of Ramanujan
M.D. Hirschhorn
Proof without Words: The Sum-Product Identities
Sidney H. Kung
Maximizing the Product of Summands: Minimizing the Sum of Factors
Eugene F. Krause
Proof without Words: The Difference-Product Identities
Sidney H. Kung
A Markov Chain Analysis of the Game of Jai Alai
Philip J. Byrne and Robert Hesse
Poker with Wild Cards -- A Paradox?
Steve Gadbois
Counting Squares in Z sub n
Walter D. Stangl
Magic Squares of Squares
John P. Robertson
General Russian Roulette
Gunnar Blom
Parallels on a Sphere
J. Schaaer
On the Convergence of Hillam's Iteration Scheme
bernd-Jurgen Falkowski
Professor Fogelfroe
Kenneth Kaminsky