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Science News June 10, 2000 Ivars Peterson |
Puzzling Lines Born in Hartford, Conn., in 1928, artist Sol LeWitt has often featured geometric and combinatorial themes in his numerous creations.... |
Science News June 3, 2000 Ivars Peterson |
Sliding Pi Artist Arlene Stamp creates public mosaic art using the digits of pi. |
Science News May 13, 2000 |
Buffon's Needling Ants The classic probability experiment known as Buffon's needle produces a statistical estimate of the value of pi, the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter.... |
Science News May 6, 2000 |
Completing Latin Squares Latin Squares have proved useful for a variety of purposes. However, their generation is a "quasigroup completion problem" which can involve difficult computation and a phase transition. |
Science News April 29, 2000 Ivars Peterson |
Tilt-A-Whirl Chaos (II) The Tilt-A-Whirl amusement park ride serves as a wonderful example of a chaotic system. |
Science News April 22, 2000 Ivars Peterson |
Tilt-A-Whirl Chaos (I) ...A walk around an amusement park suggests that several other common rides display chaotic behavior similar to that of the Tilt-A-Whirl... |
Science News March 25, 2000 Ivars Peterson |
MathTrek: Abbott and Costello's Wacky Math |
Science News March 11, 2000 Ivars Peterson |
MathTrek: A Fair Deal for Housemates Using Sperner's lemma to determine fair prices when dividing up assets among a set of people. |
Science News March 4, 2000 |
MathTrek: Losing to Win ...striking new result in game theory is now called Parrondo's paradox... |
Science News February 26, 2000 |
Troublesome Weather Trends Weekly weather patterns are surprising, but may be due to a bad use of statistics. |
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