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1/19 |
Peter Trapa
Counting and infinity
Notes
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1/26 |
Peter Trapa
More counting problems
Notes
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2/2 |
Peter Trapa
Catalan numbers
Notes
(by Mladen Bestvina)
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2/9 |
Peter Trapa
More interpretions of the Catalan numbers
Slides (by Glenn Tesler)
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2/16 |
Dan Ciubotaru
Inclusion-exclusion and derangements
Notes
(by Brian Conrey and Tom Davis)
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2/23 |
Dan Ciubotaru
Mass point geometry
Notes (by Tom Rike)
Notes (by Bobby Hanson)
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3/2 |
Peter Trapa
The moving sidewalk is now ending
Notes: See Chapter 10 of
George Szpiro's A Mathematical Medley or
Terry Tao's blog entry
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3/9 |
Peter Trapa
Click and Clack Take It Back
Notes:
this Car Talk puzzler
and it's "solution".
Unrelated fun: The Math Salute
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3/16 |
Peter Trapa
State Math Contest roundup
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3/23 |
No Meeting (Spring Break)
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3/30 |
Peter Trapa
Quadratic formula mod n
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4/6 |
Aaron Wood
Solutions to Pell's Equation
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4/13 |
Aaron Wood
The hat problem
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4/20 |
Peter Trapa
Closed forms for linear recurrneces I
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4/27 |
Peter Trapa
Closed forms for linear recurrneces II
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