The Mathematical Intelligencer

2005 - 2025

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Volume 40, issue 4, 2018

Do the Golden State Warriors Have Hot Hands? pp. 1-5

Alon Daks, Nishant Desai and Lisa R. Goldberg

Hilbert’s Error? pp. 6-11

Alexander Shen

From Symmetry to Monotonicity pp. 12-13

Bernd Kawohl and David Krejčiřík

A Four-Vertex Theorem for Frieze Patterns? pp. 14-18

Serge Tabachnikov

A Mathematician in Zagreb pp. 19-22

Branimir Dakić and Biserka Kolarec

The Great Storm pp. 23-25

Colin Adams

The Ins and Outs of Mathematical Explanation pp. 26-29

Mark Colyvan

On Growth and Form at 100 pp. 30-32

Matthew Jarron

Physics in Biology—Has D’Arcy Thompson Been Vindicated? pp. 33-38

Evelyn Fox Keller

Are All Fish the Same Shape If You Stretch Them? The Victorian Tale of On Growth and Form pp. 39-61

Stephen Wolfram

The Pharmacopoeia Mathematica pp. 62-64

John D. Gibbon

Applying Archimedes’s Method to Alternating Sums of Powers pp. 65-70

David Treeby

Baseball Retrograde Analysis pp. 71-76

Jerry Butters and Jim Henle

Marginal Excuses pp. 77-78

Kay R. Pechenick DeVicci Shultz

Saly Ruth Struik, 1894–1993 pp. 79-85

Martina Bečvářová

A Lady Mathematician in This Strange Universe: Memoirs by Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat pp. 86-88

Mary W. Gray

De quadratura arithmetica circuli ellipseos et hyperbolae cujus corollarium est trigonometria sine tabulis by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz edited by Eberhard Knobloch pp. 89-91

Niccolò Guicciardini

Problems for Metagrobologists. A Collection of Puzzles with Real Mathematical, Logical or Scientific Content by David Singmaster pp. 92-93

Albrecht Heeffer

The Great Formal Machinery Works: Theories of Deduction and Computation at the Origins of the Digital Age by Jan von Plato pp. 94-96

Craig Smoryński

Mathematics without Apologies: Portrait of a Problematic Vocation By Michael Harris pp. 97-98

John J. Watkins

The Absolute Power of Sports Medicine pp. 99-99

Jane P. Sheldon

19th-Century Mathematical Physics pp. 100-100

Robin Wilson

Volume 40, issue 3, 2018

Al-Cauchy’s Theorem pp. 1-1

Pedro Manuel Macedo Ribeiro

Mathematical Symbolism in a Russian Literary Masterpiece pp. 2-11

Noah Giansiracusa and Anastasia Vasilyeva

The End of Statistical Independence: The Story of Bose–Einstein Statistics pp. 12-17

Prakash Gorroochurn

A Possible Solution to the Mayan Calendar Enigma pp. 18-25

Thomas Chanier

Long Geodesics on Convex Surfaces pp. 26-31

Arseniy Akopyan and Anton Petrunin

Why Twelve Tones? The Mathematics of Musical Tuning pp. 32-36

Emily Clader

Alternatives to Semitones and Quartertones: Music-Theoretical Suggestions pp. 37-42

Reilly Smethurst

An Introduction to the Collected Works pp. 43-44

Colin Adams

Rotundus: Triangulations, Chebyshev Polynomials, and Pfaffians pp. 45-50

Charles H. Conley and Valentin Ovsienko

What Was Jakob Steiner Like? pp. 51-56

Robin Wilson

Burning Man’s Mathematical Underbelly pp. 57-62

Seth Stannard Cottrell

Puzzle Ninja Ninja pp. 63-67

Jim Henle

Reversibility pp. 68-68

Chandler Davis

The Abel Prize 2003–2007. The First Five Years by Helge Holden and Ragni Piene (eds.) and The Abel Prize 2008–2012 by Helge Holden and Ragni Piene (eds.) pp. 69-71

Dierk Schleicher

Finding Fibonacci: The Quest to Rediscover the Forgotten Mathematical Genius Who Changed the World by Keith Devlin and The Man of Numbers: Fibonacci’s Arithmetic Revolution by Keith Devlin pp. 72-72

Mark Causapin

Principes mathématiques de la philosophie naturelle: la traduction française des “Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica” by Isaac Newton and Émilie Du Châtelet edited by Michel Toulmonde pp. 73-74

Osmo Pekonen

Émilie du Châtelet’s Institutions physiques. Über die Rolle von Hypothesen und Prinzipien in der Physik. by Andrea Reichenberger pp. 75-76

Clara Carus

Das mathematische und naturphilosophische Lernen und Arbeiten der Marquise du Châtelet (1706–1749). Wissenszugänge einer Frau im 18. Jahrhundert By Frauke Böttcher pp. 77-78

Andrea Reichenberger

New York Scientific: A Culture of Inquiry, Knowledge, and Learning by István Hargittai and Magdolna Hargittai pp. 79-79

Osmo Pekonen

Russia pp. 80-80

Robin Wilson

Volume 40, issue 2, 2018

A Bug’s Eye View: The Riemannian Exponential Map on Polyhedral Surfaces pp. 1-9

David Glickenstein

Armies of Chess Queens pp. 10-15

Martin F. van Bommel and Katie T. MacEachern

Simple Extensions of the Lotka-Volterra Prey-Predator Model pp. 16-19

Mario Bruschi and Francesco Calogero

Proof Without Words: The Sum of Squares pp. 20-20

Bikash Chakraborty

Bonaventura Cavalieri and Bologna pp. 21-29

Diego L. González, Loris Rabiti and Julyan H. E. Cartwright

Gold Rush pp. 30-32

Colin Adams

Modified Equations and the Basel Problem pp. 33-37

Mats Vermeeren

Emmy’s Time pp. 38-44

Anthony Bonato

Mathematicians Who Never Were pp. 45-49

Barbara Pieronkiewicz

A Geometric Interpretation of Curvature Inequalities on Hypersurfaces via Ravi Substitutions in the Euclidean Plane pp. 50-54

Bogdan D. Suceavă

Equidecomposability of Polyhedra: A Solution of Hilbert’s Third Problem in Kraków before ICM 1900 pp. 55-63

Danuta Ciesielska and Krzysztof Ciesielski

Soviet Street Mathematics: Landau’s License Plate Game pp. 64-66

Harun Šiljak

Mathematics Underfoot: The Formulas That Came to Würzburg from New Haven pp. 67-75

A. J. Bracken

The Entertainer pp. 76-80

Jim Henle

Snowflake pp. 81-81

Lawrence Mark Lesser

Martin Davis on Computability, Computational Logic, and Mathematical Foundations by E. Omodeo and A. Policriti (eds.) pp. 82-84

Jan von Plato

A Singular Mathematical Promenade by Étienne Ghys pp. 85-88

Sergei Tabachnikov

Abstraction and Infinity by Paolo Mancosu pp. 89-90

Roman Kossak

Gifted by Tom Flynn pp. 91-92

Mary W. Gray

Leonhard Euler: Mathematical Genius in the Enlightenment by Ronald S. Calinger pp. 93-97

Johan C.-E. Stén

19th-Century Algebra pp. 98-98

Robin Wilson

Volume 40, issue 1, 2018

The Mathematical Intelligencer Turns Forty! pp. 1-3

Marjorie Senechal

The ABCs of Viewing Ringed Planets pp. 4-13

Marc Frantz

Does 2 + 3 = 5? In Defence of a Near Absurdity pp. 14-17

Mary Leng

Brussels’ Skew Sphere pp. 18-23

Dirk Huylebrouck

To the Fields Medal Committee pp. 24-25

Colin Adams

The Mathematics of Taffy Pullers pp. 26-35

Jean-Luc Thiffeault

Outliers: A Perspective from the Mean pp. 36-37

N. M. Luna

Women’s Representation in Mathematics Subfields: Evidence from the arXiv pp. 38-49

Abra Brisbin and Ursula Whitcher

Using Kempe Exchanges to Disentangle Kempe Chains pp. 50-54

James A. Tilley

A Projective Analogue of Napoleon’s and Varignon’s Theorems pp. 55-58

Quang-Nhat Le

On Models and Visualizations of Some Special Quartic Surfaces pp. 59-67

David E. Rowe

Meaning to Please pp. 68-72

Jim Henle

Integer-Digit Functions: An Example of Math-Art Integration pp. 73-78

Ernesto Estrada

Bounding a Sum on a Sleepless Evening (with apologies to Robert Frost) pp. 79-79

R. J. Wolfe

4 3 2 1: A Novel by Paul Auster pp. 80-83

Danielle Spencer

Calculating the Cosmos: How Mathematics Unveils the Universe by Ian Stewart pp. 84-85

Mauri Valtonen

The Proof and the Pudding: What Mathematicians, Cooks, and You Have in Common by Jim Henle pp. 86-87

Pamela Gorkin

Recollections of a Jewish Mathematician in Germany by Abraham A. Fraenkel; edited by Jiska Cohen-Mansfield pp. 88-89

James Robert Brown

Mathematical Berlin: Science, Sights, and Stories by Iris and Martin Grötschel pp. 90-90

Osmo Pekonen

Neumbering pp. 91-92

O.G. Cassani and John Horton Conway

Correction to: Neumbering pp. 93-93

O.G. Cassani and John Horton Conway

19th-Century Geometry pp. 94-94

Robin Wilson