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Table of Contents: EDITORIAL Building a Modeling Community: MATHmodels.org SPECIAL SECTION ON THE ICM Results o...
Table of Contents: FROM THE PUBLISHER'S DESK Roots HiMCM NOTES Mathematical Modeling in High School HISTORICA...
Table of Contents: PUBLISHER'S EDITORIAL The Good Fight SPECIAL SECTION ON THE MCM Results of the 2004 Mathematic...
The birthday paradox is well known and appears in many popular books on mathematics. In the form in which it is most ...
This paper surveys the landscape of courses outside the track leading to calculus, describes an offering of a Finite ...
Ah, the conic sections! Everyone knows (beware of statements that begin with the phrase Everyone knows . . . !) that...
We use a single example to explain: *the Likelihood Principle *Bayesian statistics, and *why classical statistics can...
In the springs of 1999 and 2001, I incorporated a series of Mathematica projects or "labs" into a vector analysis cou...
When a colleague from the Biology Dept. who knew I was interested in flowers introduced me to C.L. Porter's Taxonomy ...
Owing to the enormous popularity of competitive running, there has long been widespread interest in finding methods t...
Table of Contents: EDITORIAL The Mathematics of Democracy ARTICLES Optimal Growth and Productivity in Organizati...
We examine the interaction of growth and productivity. We put forth a very simple model to enable managers to underst...
We discuss the dynamics of ski skating, in particular, the optimization problem: Maximize average speed for a given p...
We consider the important problem of optimizing a wind turbine's power coefficient the percentage of available wind p...
This module applies ordinary differential equations to both immunological and epidemiological aspects of HIV/AIDS mod...
Table of Contents: EDITORIAL The Next 25 Years Editor's Note: Now in Color at a Computer Near You MATHSERVE Opti...
The "Pythagorean Theorem of Baseball" uses a simple function of a team's runs scored and runs allowed to predict the ...
While students versed in mathematics are often exposed to methodologies involved in solving mathematical models, less...
The concept of "comfort" has so many complications and implications that there is no hope of finding a global scienti...
A large theme park presents its guests with an interesting and challenging problem: choosing rides to visit and an or...
Before this decade, interest in ice hockey moved at glacier speed from Canada and across the United States. Now profe...
In 1975, Jacob Eli Goodman posed the following problem in the American Mathematical Monthly under the pseudonym of Ha...
Determining winning strategies for the game of Chessboard Trichrome is an open problem appearing in Silverman [1991]....
Error-correcting methods are used when some binary message digits (bits, with values 0 or 1) switch value during tran...
How might we measure the importance of a web site? Well, it's important if other important web sites link to it (if t...
Simulation of systems offers the opportunity for thorough understanding, if accessible computer software is available...
What percentage of the labor force is unemployed? What percentage of household budgets is devoted to shelter? How rap...
The solitaire game "Tchuka Ruma" is described as follows in the book of mathematical diversions by Degrazia [1948, ...
"Knock 'm Down" is a game of dice that is so easy to learn that it is being played in classrooms around the world. Al...
A heat exchanger is used to cool a hot liquid or to heat a cold liquid. An example of a heat exchanger in your home i...
When asked in the late 19th century to explain his success at the plate, baseball Hall-of-Famer "Wee Willie" Keeler r...
The Senior Seminar of the Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science at Ripon College decided to work as a consultancy...
The Netherlands is a very flat country: there are no hills in the western part at all, except for a row of dunes that...
In this paper we present three examples illustrating the use of combinatorics in computing probabilities relevant to ...
"The Cowboys deserved to lose" [Associated Press 1995]. This terse assessment by John Madden, esteemed sportscaster w...
Have you ever wondered how music is stored on a compact disc and then reproduced? Mathematically, the music can be vi...

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