Archive for March, 2008
Monday, March 31st, 2008
We've completed two Monday Math Madness contests. Last Friday Blinkdagger announced that Joshua Zucker, director at Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival, was randomly selected as the winner of the 2nd contest. Now it's my turn to post a contest problem. Those of you who are astute readers may have noticed that ...
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Earlier this month UC Berkeley professor emeritus of mathematics David Gale passed away. Gale made a number of significant contributions to mathematics and he loved puzzles, games, and finding beauty in mathematics. Gale's daughter had this to say:
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
On March 3rd Blinkdagger and I posted the first Monday Math Madness problem. On March 11th, after the first contest ended, I posted a couple of different solutions to the problem. Pat Ballew, even though he wasn't picked as the random winner, impressed me with a very clever solution to ...
Posted in Game, Fun, Puzzle, Probability | 4 Comments »
Friday, March 21st, 2008
Here's a joke I got a good chuckle out of. I'm not sure who to credit since there a number of web-sites with this joke so I'll credit the site where I first found it, Savage Research.
Two mathematicians were having dinner in a restaurant, arguing about the average mathematical knowledge ...
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Friday, March 21st, 2008
Here are some interesting recent Math-related posts in the "blathosphere."
Carnival of Mathematics 29 is out at Quomodocumque. The Number Warrior will be hosting the next Carnival on April 4.
You have only a couple more days to get your solutions in for the second Monday Math Madness at Blinkdagger.
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
Blinkdagger has posted the second Monday Math Madness contest. It has a fun St. Patrick's Day theme. Check it out!
You've got a week to solve this problem and send in your well-explained solution. The Blinkdagger guys are giving out $10 in Amazon gift certificate cash to a randomly-selected winner.
April 7th ...
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Saturday, March 15th, 2008
We interrupt your regularly scheduled blog for a non-Math post ...
It's Saturday night here, I was just memed by Robert at Reason-4-Smile, I don't feel like doing any productive work so I'll answer the meme and launch it further into the blogosphere.
The meme asks me to give a link to ...
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Friday, March 14th, 2008
Today is March 14th, or 3/14 as Americans write dates. Think that pi is roughly 3.14 and you'll see why today is Pi Day.
Denise at Let's Play Math does a superb job of writing about this special day. She's got a Pi poem, lots of links to pi-related pages and ...
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Friday, March 14th, 2008
I wanted to state what some of you may have been noticing: My rate of posting has decreased, posts have been more superficial, and I've been slow to respond to comments. Life has been busier than I expected, with important life matters and paid short-term project work filling a significant ...
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
For the very first Monday Math Madness contest we got 13 submissions. Of the 13, 6 were correct. For the record, I solved the problem by enumerating the various cases where 3 categories were represented and computing and adding their probabilities. I also verified my solution to the problem by ...
Posted in Fun, Math contest, Puzzle, Probability | 9 Comments »
