Math

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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.

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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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    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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    Pythagoras Plays Ball

    The official dimensions of baseball's home plate aren't Pythagorean.

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