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Science News
August 26, 2000
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Scrambled Grids Amazingly simple mathematical operations can lead to intriguingly complex results. Consider, for instance, the iterative geometric process of creating flaky pastry dough...   |
Science News
April 27, 2002
Ivars Peterson |
Getting Clobbered Clobber is a new two-person game that's easy to learn and fun to play and, for the mathematically inclined, rife with analytical possibility... |
Science News
June 24, 2006
Ivars Peterson |
Counting Franklin's Magic Squares One mathematician finds that Benjamin Franklin's remarkable magic squares are just three of more than 1 million possibilities. |
Science News
July 5, 2003
Ivars Peterson |
Alphamagic Squares Magic squares have fascinated people for thousands of years. They consist of a set of whole numbers arranged in a square so that the sum of the numbers is the same in each row, in each column, and along each diagonal. A twist on the concept, the alphamagic square, is interesting, too. |
PC Magazine
January 20, 2004
M. David Stone |
Create Columns Using Text Boxes In Word With text boxes, your graphics will stay where you put them in Microsoft Word. |
Science News
May 6, 2000 |
Completing Latin Squares Latin Squares have proved useful for a variety of purposes. However, their generation is a "quasigroup completion problem" which can involve difficult computation and a phase transition. |
Science News
September 22, 2001
Ivars Peterson |
Sand Drawings and Mirror Curves To accompany the telling of a story or recounting of a fable, men of the Chokwe people in south-central Africa traditionally made sand drawings, called sona, to illustrate the tale. These highly stylized geometric illustrations also served as memory aids... |
Science News
August 12, 2000
Ivars Peterson |
Art of the Grid The practice of laying a grid on top of a drawing, then painstakingly copying each line of the drawing to the corresponding cell of a blank grid has a long history in both mathematics and art. |
National Real Estate Investor
December 1, 2004
Jim Popp |
Don't Let Assessors Box You In Stand-alone retail boxes are among the least complex types of real estate. However, these boxes are often misunderstood and, as a result, overvalued by property tax authorities. |
Science News
June 25, 2005
Ivars Peterson |
Magic Squares of Squares People have been toying with magic squares for more than 2,000 years--setting themselves increasingly difficult challenges to find arrays of numbers that fit given patterns. Here are some examples. |
