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October 1996 Mathematics Magazine Contents

Mathematics Magazine

October 1996


Featured Articles

The Baseball-Card Collector's Query
James 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