The Mathematical Intelligencer

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Volume 39, issue 4, 2017

Magical Untangling pp. 1-1

Sophia Healy

The Isoperimetric Problem with Density pp. 2-8

Frank Morgan

Quiz 1: What Color Was George Washington’s White Horse? The Mathematical Version pp. 9-17

Ulrich Daepp, Pamela Gorkin and Karl Voss

Fourier’s Back in Town pp. 18-26

Alain Juhel and Tadeusz Sliwa

The Seven Labors of Hercules pp. 27-29

Colin Adams

Mathematics on the Chopping Block pp. 30-40

Theodore Kolokolnikov

Average Pace and Horizontal Chords pp. 41-45

Keith Burns, Orit Davidovich and Diana Davis

Where Are Kolmogorov’s Posthumous Papers? pp. 46-46

Oscar Sheynin

Proofs and Guarantees pp. 47-50

James Robert Brown

Quadrivium: The Structure of Mathematics as Described in Isidore of Seville’s Etymologies pp. 51-56

Isabel M. Serrano, Lucy H. Odom and Bogdan D. Suceavă

When Mathematicians Speak, What Do Poets and Musicians Hear? pp. 57-61

F. Luke Wolcott

The Payoff pp. 62-65

Jim Henle

A Fallacy Not Assessed by Kahneman and Tversky pp. 66-66

Lawrence M. Lesser

Henri Poincaré: Impatient Genius by Ferdinand Verhulst pp. 67-69

Colin Mclarty

The Man Who Knew Infinity A film by Matt Brown pp. 70-71

Mary W. Gray

Mathematics and the Real World: The Remarkable Role of Evolution in the Making of Mathematics by Zvi Artstein pp. 72-73

Paul Zorn

The New Math: A Political History by Christopher J. Phillips pp. 74-76

Sam Williams

Die Analysis im Wandel und im Widerstreit. Eine Formierungsgeschichte ihrer Grundbegriffe by Detlef D. Spalt pp. 77-80

Rüdiger Thiele

Rigor & Structure by John P. Burgess pp. 81-82

Reuben Hersh

Sacred Mathematics: Japanese Temple Geometry by Hidetoshi Fukagawa and Tony Rothman; foreword by Freeman Dyson pp. 83-85

Jean Constant

The École Polytechnique pp. 86-86

Robin Wilson

Volume 39, issue 3, 2017

Picturing Math: Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York pp. 1-4

Philip Ording

Skeletal Geometric Complexes and Their Symmetries pp. 5-16

Egon Schulte and Asia Ivić Weiss

Genie und Wahnsinn pp. 17-17

Manfred Stern

Generating Infinite Links as Periodic Tilings of the da Vinci–Dürer Knots pp. 18-23

Blas Herrera and Albert Samper

Referee’s Report pp. 24-26

Colin Adams

Mathematics and Flamenco: An Unexpected Partnership pp. 27-39

J. M. Díaz-Báñez

An Asymptotically Closed Loop of Tetrahedra pp. 40-45

Michael Elgersma and Stan Wagon

The Greatest Geometer since the Time of Apollonius pp. 46-52

Jemma Lorenat

Leibniz, a Sorb pp. 53-55

D. Huylebrouck, Z. Ognjanovic and L. Radović

Ricci Tensors and Wine in Lugo di Romagna and Padova, Italy pp. 56-60

Stefano De Marchi and Giovanni Andreatta

Mathematics: Easy and Hard. Why? pp. 61-72

Bernhelm Booß-Bavnbek

The Wages of Progress pp. 73-76

Jim Henle

Tilting Theory: A Gift of Representation Theory to Mathematics pp. 77-86

Gabriella D’Este

A Brief History of Numbers by Leo Corry pp. 87-90

Jesper Lützen

Gott Sprach: Es Werde Newton… Mathematisch-Physikalische Lehr- und Leergedichte by Manfred Stern pp. 91-91

Osmo Pekonen

A Comet of the Enlightenment: Anders Johan Lexell’s Life and Discoveries by Johan C.-E. Stén pp. 92-93

Ronald Calinger

Euler et le Parcours du Cavalier, avec une Annexe sur le Théorème des Polyèdres by Jacques Sesiano pp. 94-95

Albrecht Heeffer

The New World pp. 96-96

Robin Wilson

Volume 39, issue 2, 2017

A Response to Douglas Jesseph pp. 1-1

Amir Alexander

Equiliteral Triangle pp. 2-2

Robert Dawson

Presidential Address pp. 3-5

Colin Adams

On Building and Interpreting Models: Four Historical Case Studies pp. 6-14

David E. Rowe

Straight Lines on Models of Curved Surfaces pp. 15-26

Oliver Labs

On Models for Visualizing Four-Dimensional Figures pp. 27-35

Klaus Volkert

An early Debate in Mathematical Biology and Its Value for Teaching: Rashevsky’s 1934 Paper on Cell Division pp. 36-45

Tinne Hoff Kjeldsen

Feynman Diagrams as Models pp. 46-54

Michael Stöltzner

Dense yet Elementary pp. 55-58

Neil Dobbs

You, Sledgehammer pp. 59-59

Lance Nizami

The Same, Only Different pp. 60-63

Jim Henle

Wigner’s “Unreasonable Effectiveness” in Context pp. 64-71

José Ferreirós

“Rayleigh’s Rotating Ring”1 pp. 72-75

Paul J. Nahin

Baroque Turin, Between Geometry and Architecture pp. 76-84

Roberta Spallone and Marco Vitali

Twenty Years of “Nexus: Architecture and Mathematics” 1996–2016 pp. 85-95

Kim Williams

Art in the Life of Mathematicians edited by Anna Kepes Szemerédi pp. 96-98

John J. Watkins

André-Louis Cholesky: Mathematician, Topographer and Army Officer by Claude Brezinski and Dominique Tournès pp. 99-101

Michele Benzi

How to Bake π: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics by Eugenia Cheng pp. 102-103

Pamela Gorkin

Imagine Maths 4: Between Culture and Mathematics edited by Michele Emmer, Marco Abate, and Marcela Villareal pp. 104-104

Marco Andreatta

János Bolyai: Die ersten 200 Jahre by Tibor Weszely translated from Hungarian into German by Manfred Stern pp. 105-106

Osmo Pekonen

Erratum to: How Efficiently Can One Untangle a Double-Twist? Waving is Believing! pp. 107-107

David Pengelley and Daniel Ramras

Leonhard Euler pp. 108-108

Robin Wilson

Volume 39, issue 1, 2017

Stairway down to Earth: From Abstract to Concrete pp. 1-2

Biserka Kolarec

Expect at Most One Billionth of a New Fermat Prime! pp. 3-5

Kent D. Boklan and John H. Conway

Variations on Steiner’s Porism pp. 6-11

Đorđe Baralić, Dušan Jokanović and Marina Milićević

The Topology Terrors pp. 12-14

Colin Adams

Interview with Pierre Cartier pp. 15-21

Sylvie Paycha

The Polynomial Euclidean Algorithm and the Linear Equation AX + BY = gcd(A, B) pp. 22-25

Gove Effinger and Gary L. Mullen

Numerical Landscape pp. 26-26

Eveline Pye

How Efficiently Can One Untangle a Double-Twist? Waving is Believing! pp. 27-40

David Pengelley and Daniel Ramras

Polynomials as Polygons pp. 41-43

Serge Tabachnikov

The Unknown Hurwitz pp. 44-49

Nicola M. R. Oswald

Reminiscences of Two Evenings with Dmitry Borisovich Gnedenko pp. 50-52

Bismark Singh

Equivalence of Symmetries and Permutations in R n pp. 53-59

Ed Dubinsky, David Henderson and Mona Nosrati

A Bike Tour for Rinus Roelofs’ Art in Twente, The Netherlands pp. 60-65

Dirk Huylebrouck

The Chinese Leftovers Theorem pp. 66-69

Jim Henle

Who Killed Professor X? by Thodoris Andriopoulos and Thanasis Gkiokas pp. 70-71

Marco Abate

Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World by Amir Alexander pp. 72-73

Douglas Jesseph

Pearls From a Lost City: The Lvov School of Mathematics by Roman Duda translated from the 2007 Polish original by Daniel Davies pp. 74-76

Lech Maligranda

Peter Lax, Mathematician: An Illustrated Memoir by Reuben Hersh photographic research by Eda Gordon pp. 77-78

Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze

Explaining Beauty in Mathematics: An Aesthetic Theory of Mathematics by Ulianov Montano pp. 79-81

David Pimm and Nathalie Sinclair

Continental Mathematics pp. 82-82

Robin Wilson