Archive for the ‘Fun’ Category
Monday, April 28th, 2008
Wow! We're on our fifth contest already! Time flies.
For this contest we have a new prize: The Art of Problem Solving folks have donated several $25 gift certificates that can be used in their bookstore. These folks do an outstanding job of challenging and inspiring kids to learn Math. Check ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
On Monday I'll be hosting the next Monday Math Madness contest. The current contest, hosted at Blinkdagger, got a whopping 103 submissions but only 37 of these were correct. So, this problem ended up being trickier than expected. Blinkdagger should be announcing their winner soon and on Monday I've got ...
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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Check out Blinkdagger.
These guys had way too much fun writing up this problem. One of the things we do when we come up with these contest problems is that, when we don't make them up ourselves, we rewrite them so a Google search won't yield the answer. Quan and Daniel ...
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Saturday, April 12th, 2008
We have a winner for the third Monday Math Madness contest. It's Johan Potums. Congratulations, Johan! I'll be contacting you about your prize.
Blinkdagger has a very interesting new contest problem that they'll be posting Monday.
Seventeen people submitted entries. Everyone got the right answer and explained their answer well. Everyone realized ...
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Saturday, April 5th, 2008
If you've not gotten your entry in for contest #3 you've only got through Monday night to do so. We've only gotten 10 correct submissions for this contest so far, so your chances of winning the prize are better than they were for the last contest.
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Those of you who are interested in search engine technology, or just want a good April Fools' Day laugh, might enjoy this post on one of my other blogs.
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title: "The future of Google?",
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Do you get inundated with April fools' jokes every year? They all seem interesting, don't they? Have you ever wondered if someday you'll encounter an uninteresting April fools' joke? As it turns out, all of them are interesting. Here's the proof.
This will be an indirect proof. We'll assume that there ...
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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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title: "Mathematician David Gale leaves legacy",
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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 ...
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