Showing posts with label even. Show all posts
Showing posts with label even. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Palindromes

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     Palindromic numbers are not uncommon  -- recently (in the July 12 posting ) power-of-eleven palindromes are mentioned.  Palindromic p...
Friday, May 27, 2011

The Bridges of Konigsberg

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From the August 1997 issue of The Mathematical Intelligencer , we have this poem by Judith Saunders  about a long-standing puzzle solved so...
Sunday, March 27, 2011

The Nightmare of an Unsolved Problem

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Back in the 1980s when I first met the Collatz conjecture in a number theory textbook it was stated this way:      Start with any whole nu...
Saturday, December 11, 2010

Cryptography -- an MAA lecture and a poem

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     Living near the Silver Spring metro station, on the border of Washington, DC, makes travel to the offices of the Mathematical Associati...
Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Minimal poem from Saroyan

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This poem appears in Complete Minimal Poems by Aram Saroyan ( Ugly Duckling Presse , 2007).  Another of Saroyan's minimal poems was...
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010

A Lemma by Constance Reid

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Constance Reid (1918-2010), died on October 14.  Sister of a mathematician (Julia Robinson), Reid wrote first about life in World War II fa...
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Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Goldbach's conjecture -- easily stated but unsolved

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This blog's July 20 posting featured work from poets who have spouses or siblings who are mathematicians.  Today, introducing the work ...
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