Sarah never smiled in my classroom. At least not with her eyes. She spoke under her breath. Whispers of words I couldn’t usually hear. She is one of the many students who I remember because despite my ...

Translated from http://contradictio.de/missbrauch_mathematik.pdf. We split some paragraphs into smaller paragraphs to aid readability. The pluralism of the bourgeois ...

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A pursuit curve is the path an object takes when chasing another object. Such a path might result from a fox pursuing a rabbit or a missile seeking a moving target. Pursuit curves can arise in a ...

This article addresses a gap in many, if not all, introductory mathematical statistics textbooks, namely, transforming a random variable so that it better mimics a normal distribution. Virtually all ...

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A British mathematician and the author of “Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature.” “Call me Ishmael.” This has to be one of the most famous opening sentences ...

Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 143, No. 9 (SEPTEMBER 2015), pp. 3815-3826 (12 pages) Let E be an elliptic curve defined over a number field F and K/F a quadratic extension. For ...

The next number has to be 32, right? The pattern is clear: To find the next number, double the current one. We have 1 × 2 = 2; 2 × 2 = 4; 4 × 2 = 8; 8 × 2 = 16. The next number should be 16 × 2 = 32.