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Finding a Parallelogram in 3D

admin — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:47:12 +0000

Imagine a pyramid with no symmetries or regularities whatsoever. To construct a pyramid like that, pick a plane, four arbitrary points in the plane and one point outside. The lines (or rays) joining the latter to the four points in the plane serve as the edges of a slanted and likely irregular pyramid. However, the [...]

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Mathematics and Physics in the car market

admin — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:47:58 +0000

Going through the old issues of the Mathematics Magazine, I have stumbled on the following note by Dawn Lindquist (Vol. 78, No. 3, Jun., 2005, p. 245) Mathematicians in the market for a car today have many choices. While analytic geometers might be drawn to the Ford Focus and algebraists may assume the Isuzu Axiom [...]

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When am I ever going to use this? Why do we need to learn this?

admin — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 14:37:01 +0000

Probably every math teacher has the experience of facing such questions; most likely the students who asked them were not looking for the answers as arguments to study mathematics, but rather in support of their conviction that the effort is not necessary. Most of the answers teachers give perfectly serve this purpose. I wrote about [...]

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