The Mathematical Intelligencer

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Volume 41, issue 4, 2019

Counting Parallel Segments: New Variants of Pick’s Area Theorem pp. 1-7

Alexander Belyaev and Pierre-Alain Fayolle

Cooking with Mathematicians pp. 8-9

Demian Nahuel Goos Bosco

On Generalizing a Corollary of Fermat’s Little Theorem pp. 10-12

Gove Effinger

Popov, Berg, Sokolov: A Street with Three Plaques pp. 13-15

Bismark Singh

The Blind Locksmith pp. 16-16

Terry Trowbridge

Ruler and Compass Constructions of the Equilateral Triangle and Pentagon in the Lemniscate Curve pp. 17-21

M. A. Gómez-Molleda and Joan-C. Lario

Numeralogy pp. 22-27

Jim Henle

N of 1 pp. 28-28

Michael J. Leach

A Relationship between the Tractrix and Logarithmic Curves with Mechanical Applications pp. 29-34

Davide Crippa and Pietro Milici

GUI pp. 35-36

Colin Adams

In Search of Shadows: The First Topological Conference, Moscow 1935 pp. 37-42

Darya E. Apushkinskaya, Alexander I. Nazarov and Galina I. Sinkevich

I Had to Call In a Mathematician pp. 43-43

Erik Talvila

Contraband Mathematics: A Documentary Review of the Resources Available to George Green at the Nottingham Subscription Library 1823–1828 pp. 44-55

Rachel Harding and Michael Harding

Kasner Meets Poncelet pp. 56-59

Serge Tabachnikov

Vertical pp. 60-60

Lawrence M. Lesser

Thomas Harriot: A Life in Science by Robyn Arianrhod pp. 62-65

Joseph Mazur

Mathematics + Art: A Cultural History by Lynn Gamwell pp. 66-68

Pedro Freitas and Simão Palmeirim

Harmonies of Disorder—Norbert Wiener: A Mathematician–Philosopher of Our Time by Leone Montagnini pp. 69-70

Eisso J. Atzema

How to Fall Slower Than Gravity by Paul J. Nahin pp. 71-72

Andrew Simoson

The Life and Works of John Napier by Brian Rice, Enrique González-Velasco, and Alexander Corrigan (eds.) pp. 73-74

Osmo Pekonen

Indivisible pp. 75-75

Adam Simon Levine

Quantum theory pp. 76-76

Robin Wilson

Volume 41, issue 3, 2019

Phase Portraits of Hyperbolic Geometry pp. 1-9

Scott B. Lindstrom and Paul Vrbik

Doing Math in Jest: Reflections on Useless Math, the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics, and the Ethical Obligations of Mathematicians pp. 10-13

Gizem Karaali

The Basel Problem: A Physicist’s Solution pp. 14-18

Zurab K. Silagadze

My Undercover Mission to Find Cairo Tilings pp. 19-22

Frank Morgan

The Euclidean Domain pp. 23-23

David Kramer

A Straightforward Proof of Descartes’s Circle Theorem pp. 24-27

Paul Levrie

A Mathematical Art pp. 28-32

Jim Henle

Are Induction and Well-Ordering Equivalent? pp. 33-40

Lars–Daniel Öhman

Cylindra Ella pp. 41-43

Colin Adams

Mihailo Petrović Alas: Mathematician and Master Fisherman pp. 44-50

Vesna Todorčević and Marija Šegan-Radonjić

The Bread Crumbs of Proof pp. 51-51

Gizem Karaali

A Refugee Scholar from Nazi Germany: Emmy Noether and Bryn Mawr College pp. 52-65

Qinna Shen

Too Many Hats pp. 66-71

Rob Pratt, Stan Wagon, Michael Wiener and Piotr Zieliński

Modeling a Hypothetical Zombie Outbreak Can Save Us from Real-World Monsters pp. 72-79

João Paulo A. Mendonça, Leonardo M. V. Teixeira, Fernando Sato and Lohan R. N. Ferreira

Humanizing Mathematics and Its Philosophy: Essays Celebrating the 90th Birthday of Reuben HershEdited by Bharath Sriraman pp. 80-81

John J. Watkins

Measured Words: Computation and Writing in Renaissance Italy by Arielle Saiber pp. 82-86

Raffaele Pisano

Weird Math: A Teenage Genius & His Teacher Reveal the Strange Connections Between Math & Everyday Life by David Darling and Agnijo Banerjee pp. 87-88

Christopher S. Brownell

Imagine Math 6: Between Culture and Mathematicsedited by Michele Emmer and Marco Abate pp. 89-90

Andrew J. Simoson

Women in Mathematics: Celebrating the Centennial of the Mathematical Association of America by Janet L. Beery, Sarah J. Greenwald, Jacqueline A. Jensen-Vallin, and Maura B. Mast (eds.) pp. 91-92

Mary W. Gray

Before Voltaire: The French Origins of “Newtonian” Mechanics 1680–1715 by J. B. Shank pp. 93-96

Tony Crilly

Non-Centrifugal Mathematics pp. 97-97

Lee Goldstein

The Nature of Light pp. 98-98

Robin Wilson and Dr Keith Hannabuss

Volume 41, issue 2, 2019

An Experimental Mathematics Approach to the Area Statistic of Parking Functions pp. 1-8

Yukun Yao and Doron Zeilberger

The Gömböc Pill pp. 9-11

Gábor Domokos

The Intrigues and Delights of Kleinian and Quasi-Fuchsian Limit Sets pp. 12-19

Chris King

Cold and Austere Beauty in Harbin, China pp. 20-26

Dirk Huylebrouck

One Bad Formula Can Spoil Everything: A Simple Adjustment That Would Improve the UN’s Gender Inequality Index pp. 27-34

Max McDonald and Neal Koblitz

Mad Math pp. 35-41

Jim Henle

Probability and Kinetic Theory: A Tale of Two Disciplines pp. 42-56

Prakash Gorroochurn

Do Androids Dream of Symmetric Sheaves? pp. 57-59

Colin Adams

Yet Another Visual Proof that $$\pi ^{e} pp. 60-60

Ananda Mukherjee and Bikash Chakraborty

What Is Schur Positivity and How Common Is It? pp. 61-64

Rebecca Patrias

On Emmy Noether’s Role in the Relativity Revolution pp. 65-72

David E. Rowe

There Is a $$3\times 3$$ 3 × 3 Magic Square of Squares on the Moon—A Lot of Them, Actually pp. 73-76

Christian Woll

Annals of Dendrology pp. 77-77

Will Kazez

The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turing by Martin Davis pp. 78-79

Roman Kossak

The Man Who Counted by Malba Tahan pp. 80-81

David Fernández

Simplicity: Ideals of Practice in Mathematics and the Arts by Roman Kossak & Philip Ording (eds.) pp. 82-84

Michael Harris

A Dingo Ate My Math Book: Mathematics from Down Under by Burkard Polster and Marty Ross pp. 85-86

Tushar Das

Arithmetic by Paul Lockhart pp. 87-87

Pamela Gorkin

A Villanelle on the Infinitesimal pp. 88-88

Michael J. Leach

Correction to: Baseball Retrograde Analysis pp. 89-89

Jerry Butters and Jim Henle

Volume 41, issue 1, 2019

A Simple Rederivation of Onsager’s Solution of the 2D Ising Model Using Experimental Mathematics pp. 1-6

Manuel Kauers and Doron Zeilberger

Pushing a Rectangle down a Path pp. 7-10

Richard Evan Schwartz

On Taking Square Roots pp. 11-15

Daniel W. Stroock

Combinatorics Comes to the Rescue: h-Vectors in Commutative Algebra pp. 16-21

A. Y. M. Chin, M. R. Pournaki, S. A. Seyed Fakhari and S. Yassemi

The Consistency of Arithmetic pp. 22-30

Timothy Y. Chow

Enigmatic Geometric Tattoos of the Butbut of Kalinga, Philippines pp. 31-38

Ma. Louise Antonette N. Las Peñas and Analyn Salvador-Amores

The Modern Prometheus pp. 39-41

Colin Adams

Is It Disgraceful to Present a Book of Mathematics to a Queen? pp. 42-50

Amirouche Moktefi

What Was Lejeune Dirichlet Like? pp. 51-55

Robin Wilson

A Visual Proof that $$\pi ^{e} pp. 56-56

Bikash Chakraborty

Approaching the History of Mathematics via the Performing Arts: Kepler: A “Renaissance Folk Play” in Verse pp. 57-66

Susan Gerofsky

The Universal Aesthetics of Mathematics pp. 67-70

Samuel G. B. Johnson and Stefan Steinerberger

Mathematical Treasures from Sid Sackson pp. 71-77

Jim Henle

Elegy pp. 78-78

Ruoshi Sun

Ode to Numbers by Sarah Glaz pp. 79-80

Emily Grosholz

Reverse Mathematics: Proofs from the Inside Out by John Stillwell pp. 81-82

Roman Kossak

Fourier Analysis and Hausdorff Dimension by Pertti Mattila pp. 83-86

Alex Iosevich

All Sides to an Oval: Properties, Parameters, and Borromini’s Mysterious Construction By Angelo Alessandro Mazzotti pp. 87-89

Roberta Spallone and Marco Vitali

Markov Chains and Mixing Times (Second Edition) by David A. Levin and Yuval Peres pp. 90-91

David Aldous