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Magazine articles on mathematics.
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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.... mark for My Articles 9 similar articles
Science News
June 3, 2000
Ivars Peterson
Sliding Pi Artist Arlene Stamp creates public mosaic art using the digits of pi. mark for My Articles 13 similar articles
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.... mark for My Articles 7 similar articles
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. mark for My Articles 12 similar articles
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. mark for My Articles 3 similar articles
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... mark for My Articles 4 similar articles
Science News
March 25, 2000
Ivars Peterson
MathTrek: Abbott and Costello's Wacky Math mark for My Articles 53 similar articles
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. mark for My Articles
Science News
March 4, 2000
MathTrek: Losing to Win ...striking new result in game theory is now called Parrondo's paradox... mark for My Articles 25 similar articles
Science News
February 26, 2000
Troublesome Weather Trends Weekly weather patterns are surprising, but may be due to a bad use of statistics. mark for My Articles 15 similar articles
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