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Notes from Previous SIMMER Feature Presentations

Notes from these presentations are available here, describing both the theory and some example problems that we hope will be of interest both to you and your students.

October 1999 - May 2001

• October 28, 1999: Ed Barbeau, Pell's Equation
  
• November 23, 1999: Mark Spivakovsky, A Mathematical 'Hodgepodge'
  
• January 27, 2000: Craig G. Fraser, Problems and Puzzles in Babylonian Mathematics
  
• February 24, 2000: Bruce A. Cload, Escher and You
  
• March 30, 2000: Cynthia Church and Randall Pyke, Dancing with Fractals: The Chaos Game (with Music!)
  
• May 4, 2000: Greg Martin and Emmanuel Knafo, Split 'P' Soup: Partaking of Number Theory
  
• October 14, 2000: Greg Martin and Emmanuel Knafo, A tale of Two Series
  
• Dec. 6, 2000: Mark Spivakovsky, A Mathematical 'Hodgepodge' Part II
  
• Jan 16, 2001: James Robert Brown, Proving with Pictures
  
• March 1, 2001: James Stewart, Mathematics and Music
  
• April 10, 2001: Jeffrey Rosenthal, Gambling Games and Random Walks
  
• May 2, 2001: Kiumars Kaveh, Eugenia Soprounova and Ivan Soprounov, What Does Empty Space Look Like?

1997-1999

The notes for most of these presentations include full solutions to the questions and problems.

• March 27th, 1997: Brett Stevens, Combinatorial Block Designs
  
• May 22nd, 1997: Will Traves, Numbers Ancient and Modern
  
• September 25th, 1997: Luis Seco, The Mathematics of Risk Management (full notes not available, but this link leads you to the introductory questions and discussion on the subject).
  
• October 23rd, 1997: N. Derzko, Linear Programming--The Cornerstone of Optimization
  
• November 27th, 1997: A. Sá Barreto, Caustic in a Tea Cup
  
• January 29th, 1998: Ragnar-Olaf Buchweitz, How to See in More Dimensions
  
• February 26th, 1998: A. I. F. Urquhart, Numbers--Finite and Infinite
  
• March 26th, 1998: Jonathan Scott, Hands-on algebraic topology
  
• April 23rd, 1998: Alison Gibbs and Martin Van Driel, Hypothesis Testing and the Chi-Squared Test of Independence
  
• April 22nd, 1999: Kumar Murty, Cryptography and Elliptic Curves
  
• May 27th, 1999: Jeremy Questel, Pricing Financial Derivatives

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This page was last updated: May 08, 2001