Flow System Integrals
One of the most important biological applications of integration is the determination of proper ties of flow systems....
Industrial Microbiology
This article was inspired by the September 1981 issue of Scientific American, which describes the applications of mic...
Math Applications: A Case Study of the Soviet-American Arms Race
The use of mathematics as a research language in the social sciences is only now coming into its own, despite the pow...
Conditional Probability and Medical Tests: An Exercise in Conditional Probability
The intuitive appeal of the definition is demonstrated routinely by means of simple examples involving card drawing, ...
Introducing the Computer into the Undergraduate Mathematics Curriculum
Suffolk Community College has just completed a major, three-year project to incorporate the use of computers into alm...
Milling Heads on a V-2N Engine
The four major parts of a V-6 or V-8 engine are the block, the intake manifold, an3 the two heads, as shown in Figure...
There Are Infinitely Many Primes
When one asks the question, What do mathematicians do? the immediate answer given by most is that they prove theorems...
Mathematical System Analysis - A Course
This paper deals with the philosophy and content of a one semester senior level course entitled Mathematical Systems ...
Stocks vs Flows : How Long Do Students Remain in School?
The question in the title is intentionally ambiguous. Whom are we interested in--entering students or those already e...
The Calculus of Leaves: A Modeling Project for a Calculus Class
When I taught a calculus class composed mostly of biology students, I looked for a project wherein the students could...
The Mathematics Clinic: A Review of Its First Decade
Anyone who has attempted to teach realistic applied mathematics in a course has no doubt been impressed with the diff...
Tennis , Golf , and Loose Gravel: Insight from Easy Mathematical Models
Wimbledon watchers and tennis players cannot fail to be aware of the importance of the service. Players like Tanner a...
The Principal Axis Theorem
This article seeks to trace the historical development of the Principal Axis Theorem. It begins with the work of Rene...
Odds , Wagers , and the Horses
Although the origins of gambling are not recorded, there is evidence of it in the histories of most peoples. Dice wer...
The Standup Conic Presents: The Ellipse and Applications
This is the second paper in a series on the conic sections. The series is intended to be a dazzling potpourri of real...
Constructing Power Lines
Power lines are constructed by stringing the conductors from support to support in a continuous manner and then adjus...
A One Year Course in Mathematical Model Building
When the mathematics department of the University of Toledo revised its multi-track masters degree programs in applie...
Superior Beings , Their Powers , and the Problem of Evil: Can this be Mathematics?
The central question I pose in Superior Beings (Brams, 1983) is: If the reexisted a superior being who possessed the ...
A Case for Mathematical Modeling
In September, 1982, we mailed questionnaires to fortyfive departments of mathematics in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana t...
Some Applications of L'Hopital's Rule in Differential Equations
Even the best and most applications-oriented calculus textbooks, e.g. [I], do not provide any real world applications...
Contrariness: A First Step in Applying Mathematics
Diane Carswell is reluctant to learn about auto mechanics for the purpose of repairing her own vehicle, but she wants...
One Musician's Use of Combinations and Permutations
The study of combinations and permutations has fascinated scholars of all disciplines since ancient times. Within the...
The Fibonacci Sequence
This presentation, centered on Fibonacci number theory and its applications. aims at instilling in beginners' minds t...
Path Detection
An industry involved in defense systems can produce a detector that behaves as if it were a circle and knows when an ...
The Standup Conic Presents: The Hyperbola and Applications
This is the third papr in a series on the conic sections. This series contains 'real-world applications of these beau...
Consortium 98, Spring/Summer 2010
Table of Contents: From the Editor's Desk: DynaMAP Math at Work: Video Game Makers at Electronic Arts Historical...
Video Game Makers at Electronic Arts
On Andrea
Schiel's
most
exciting
day of
work, she helped Spiderman
escape from Ironman. Jose Caban
made...
The End of the Beginning
The historical development of mathematical modeling as its own unique area of mathematics reflects its roots in opera...
Modeling Images
In this Pull-Out, students learn how images can be digitalized and then compressed to reduce storage space. In Activi...
Enumeration Via Partitions
In 1995, Branko Grünbaum ([2]) published a fascinating new classification for convex quadrilaterals. Grünbaum starts ...
Youthful Achievement in Mathematics
Momentous
mathematical
achievement
is frequently
associated
with those who are advanced
in years. Some of...
Mathematical Experiments and Experimental Mathematics
This article introduces the emerging field of experimental mathematics by surveying just a few of its motivations, me...
UMAP Journal 31.2 Summer 2010 Edition - The 2010 MCM / ICM Contest Edition
Table of Contents Editorial The Modeling Contests in 2010 MCM Modeling Forum Results of the 2010 Mathematical Con...
Statistical Methods in Sole Source Contract Negotiation
This paper describes procedures that are used to analyze proposals that arise in the acquisition of military systems ...
The Network Television Game: There May Be No Best Schedule
ABSTRACT. The network television game involves three players, with each player trying to maximize his share of the ma...