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College Football, Rankings, and Wandering Monkeys
The system for ranking college football teams to see who plays for the national championship has flaws.
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More Progressive Primes
The first sequence consisting of 23 prime numbers in arithmetic progression has been discovered.
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A Better Distorted View
The mathematics used to describe diffusion can also be used to generate maps based on population data.
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Floating Bodies
An extension of work by Archimedes on the stability of floating bodies leads to some insights into the behavior of icebergs and other structures.
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Math Olympiad in Athens
A team from the United States placed second in this year's International Mathematical Olympiad.
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Women in Mathematics
From Maria Gaetana Agnesi to Lai-Sang Young, these Web pages provide biographies of prominent women in mathematics. Prepared by students at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta, the biographical essays describe the achievements of women in a variety of mathematical fields. Some essays include portraits and other illustrations. Go to: http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/Women.htm
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Math Olympiad in Athens
A team from the United States placed second in this year's International Mathematical Olympiad.
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Math Olympiad in Athens
A team from the United States placed second in this year's International Mathematical Olympiad.
- Math
Math Olympiad in Athens
A team from the United States placed second in this year's International Mathematical Olympiad.
- Math
Generous Players
Game theory is helping to explain how cooperation and other self-sacrificing behaviors fit into natural selection.
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Waring Experiments
Expressing integers as the sums of squares or other powers has a long history.
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