| Date: | Speaker
Affiliation |
Topic | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
September 15, 2010 |
Linda Green
Dominican University |
Who left all those lockers open? | |
| September 22, 2010 | Alon Amit |
Four Points, Two Distances | |
| September 29, 2010 | Zvezdelina Stankova
Mills College |
Solving Problems in Plane Geometry 1: Reflection Does It! |
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| October 6, 2010 | Linda Green
Dominican University |
Solving Problems in Plane Geometry 1.5: Reflect and Reflect Again |
Same handout as last time. |
| October 13, 2010 | Zvezdelina Stankova Mills College |
Solving Problems in Plane Geometry 2: Transformations In the Plane |
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| October 20, 2010 | Paul Zeitz, University of San Francisco |
Mathematical Games | Homework: Problem 7 – Puppies and Kittens |
| October 27, 2010 | Paul Zeitz, University of San Francisco |
Mathematical Games, Part 2 | Same handout as last time. |
| November 3, 2010 | Paul Zeitz, University of San Francisco |
Mathematical Games, Part 3 | |
| November 10, 2010 | Linda Green
Dominican University |
Math Auction | |
| November 17, 2010 | — | AMC-8 Math Contest | Practice Problems |
| November 24, 2010 | No Math Circle
Thanksgiving |
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| December 1, 2010 | Joshua Zucker | The Mad Veterinarian and Other Invariants Part 1 |
Things to think about for next time: Problem #9 — box splitting. Also problem #12 cup flipping — we talked about two and four cups, but what about other starting numbers of cups arranged in a circle? |
| December 8, 2010 | Joshua Zucker | The Mad Veterinarian and Other Invariants Part 2 |
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| December 15, 2010 | Ravi Vakil,
Stanford University |
The Unexpected Golden Mean in Mathematics and Nature |
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| January 12, 2011 | Linda Green
Dominican University |
The Shape of Space Part 1
Tic Tac Toe on the Torus |
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| January 19, 2011 | Linda Green
Dominican University |
The Shape of Space Part 2
Klein bottles and 3 dimensional spaces |
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| January 26, 2011 | Linda Green
Dominican University |
The Shape of Space Part 3
Classification of surfaces |
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| February 2, 2011 | Dave Auckly MSRI |
Spherical Triangles Take Flight Part 1 |
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| Tuesday
January 8, 2011 |
Meghan Peck Dominican University |
AMC-10/12 Math Contest | Practice problems are on the AMC website. |
| February 9, 2011 | Dave Auckly MSRI |
Spherical Triangles Take Flight Part 2 |
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| February 16, 2011 | Linda Green
Dominican University |
Math Auction | |
| Tuesday, February 22, 2011 | Bay Area Math Olympiad (BAMO) | Sample problems | |
| February 23, 2011 | NO MATH CIRCLE
Ski Week |
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| March 2, 2011 | Joshua Zucker | Graph Labeling and Digit Sums | |
| March 9, 2011 | Joshua Zucker | Digit Sums and Other Adventures | |
| March 16, 2011 | Ted Courant
Bentley School |
Dots and Boxes: a Game of Double-Crosses | |
| March 23, 2011 | Ted Courant
Bentley School |
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| March 30, 2011 | Paul Zeitz
University of San Francisco |
Probability, Part 1 | For next time, think about problems 4 (Love Triangle) and 5 (Die Throws) on page 2 of the handout, and problems 1 (Card Deck) and 10 (What a Loser!) on pages 2 and 4. (Also problem 12 — the St. Petersburg Paradox — looks fun.) |
| April 6, 2011 | Paul Zeitz
University of San Francisco |
Probability, Part 2 | Simulation of the St. Petersburg Paradox |
| April 13, 2011 | NO MATH CIRCLE
Spring Break |
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| April 20, 2011 | Linda Green Dominican University |
Pigeonhole Principle | |
| April 27, 2011 | Maia Averett Mills College |
Mathematics of Doodling | |
| May 4, 2011 | Alon Amit |
Graphs and Number Theory | |
| May 11, 2011 | Dana Paquin
Stanford University |
Pick’s Theorem and Farey Sequences and Ford Circles | Two proofs of Pick’s Theorem |
| May 18, 2011 | Linda Green Dominican University |
A Math Dash with Themes from Number Theory |
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