Stanford Math Circle

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Stanford Math Circle

Winter 2006

Date Speaker Title/Topic Notes
8 January Tatiana Shubin 1 line = 3 points!? (Finite geometries) Notes
15 January Tatiana Shubin Euclid meets Pascal (Geometric combinatorics) Notes
22 January Sam Vandervelde Mathematical beauty contest (The golden mean) Notes
29 January Sam Vandervelde In the Zome (The mathematics behind Zome tools)
5 February Sam Vandervelde Sneaky segments (Number theory rescues probability) Notes
12 February Paul Zeitz Some numbers have all the luck (Probability examines number theory) Notes
19 February Sam Vandervelde Winter film fest (“Not Knot” and “The Proof”)
26 February Ben Brubaker p-culiar numbers (Primes) Notes
5 March Sam Vandervelde My favorite integer triangles (Trigonometry proves to be useful) AND AIME practice session Notes
19 March Joshua Zucker No boys next to girls (Introduction to counting) Notes
26 March Joshua Zucker The lemma that is not Burnside's (Tres cool counting techniques) and end-of-term pizza party Notes