Archive for the ‘Puzzle’ Category
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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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 ...
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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 ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Four of you have submitted answers to Monday Math Madness so far but only two of them are correct. Remember, the Blinkdagger guys and I are picking a good random answer, not the first good answer. So, you've all still got a chance to win $10 to Amazon.
Heather, from the ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
I was contacted last week by a couple of Matlab geeks, Quan and Daniel, who have started a blog, Blinkdagger, about co-sponsoring an ongoing Math contest. Now, I was a little confused because I think these guys are engineers, and I didn't know that engineers took Math classes :) (Maybe ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Ok, so this is not Math-related but I did discover it in the book Fun With Mathematics. The book, by the way, which is out of print and only available used, is definitely worth a couple of bucks plus the shipping cost.
So, what do the following words have in common?
playgrounds
dumbwaiters
workmanship
republicans
sympathizer
Yes, ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Something new is coming to the blogosphere. It's Monday Math Madness!
Stay tuned for details ...
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Sunday, February 17th, 2008
I recently discovered a great web-site, Griddlers.net. The site has lots of puzzles called Griddlers, which I had never before heard of. Griddlers remind me of Sudoku; they're logic puzzles like Sudoku, but with an interesting twist. Once you've solved the puzzle you end up with a nice picture ...
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