The Shoelace Book--A Book Review
Reviewed by Colin Adams
Writing a Teaching Philosophy Statement
Helen G. Grundman
WHAT IS...a Quasiconformal Mapping?
Juha Heinonen
International Congress of Mathematicians 2006
Allyn Jackson
The Jefferson Fellowship Program
2005 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences (Third Report)
Ellen E. Kirkman, James W. Maxwell, Colleen A. Rose
The Search for Simple Symmetric Venn Diagrams
Frank Ruskey, Carla D. Savage, and Stan Wagon
Generalizing the familiar pictures of two or three intersecting circles, a
Venn diagram is a collection of simple closed curves that intersect in only
finitely many points and such that the intersection of interiors of any subset
of the curves is nonempty and connected. If there are n curves, and the diagram
has n-fold rotational symmetry, n must be a prime. The authors show how these
can be constructed.
Better Ways to Cut a Cake
Steven J. Brams, Michael A. Jones, and Christian Klamler
A mathematical cake, as viewed by n persons participating in its division,
is modeled by their n (covert) value functions on the unit interval. Each
participant can cut the cake at a point by a vertical line at that point, and
each is assumed to make their cut so as to maximize the value of the minimum
size piece they might receive. The authors explore algorithms that allow this
division to be fair to all.
Commentary
"Opinion: Math for America and the Math Science Teaching Corps" -
Irwin Kra, Executive Director, Math for America
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