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	<description>What immortal hand or eye / could frame thy fearful symmetry?</description>
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		<title>Bus-wait and Rubik&#8217;s Cubes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 05:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two recent items of note in the NYT: Recently, a group of Harvard students were featured for their work on the Bus-Wait problem. The problem is this: you&#8217;re waiting for the bus, and start to get bored. You wonder if you should just walk. Scott Kominers and friends found that you should almost always wait. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=math152.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4483486&amp;post=894&amp;subd=math152&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Interesting Proof By Contradiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 03:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the final coming up tomorrow and the possibility of a proof by contradiction on the exam, I remember one that I saw in high school and would like to share it, both as a review and as an interesting proof.  Does 1=.99999&#8230;?  At first I thought it didn&#8217;t, but then when I saw the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=math152.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4483486&amp;post=891&amp;subd=math152&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mathematical Modeling</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:32:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a number of friends took Mathematical Modeling this past semester.  For their final project, the students were required to develop a model using the mathematical techniques they had learned over the course of the semester. I thought that many of the projects were truly fascinating applications of math to real world problems, especially [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=math152.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4483486&amp;post=889&amp;subd=math152&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mathemagic!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:47:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tejat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you need a quick study break this reading period and facebook is no longer doing it for you, I really recommend checking out ted.com. The main purpose of the TED conference is to promote the spread of ideas, and the website is full of really awesome videos from the conference where speakers and performers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=math152.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4483486&amp;post=887&amp;subd=math152&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shape of Universe</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 05:28:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the more interesting topics we touched on in class, in my opinion, was the shape of the universe. I particularly liked watching the video of many earths in all directions. I believe the strangest of these videos was the hyperbolic depiction of the universe.  Because of my fascination with the shape of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=math152.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4483486&amp;post=885&amp;subd=math152&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brain Teasers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the spirit of on-campus recruiting, I figured I would write a post about brain teasers which could potentially come up in an interview. 1.  Suppose you are at an auction and are bidding on a good whose value is X.  The value of X is is a random value uniformly distributed between 0 and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=math152.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4483486&amp;post=882&amp;subd=math152&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Applications of 152 in Secret Santa</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came across an interesting application of permutations during Secret Santa with my blocking group and some friends a couple weeks ago. In Secret Santa, you are assigned another member of your group whom you must secretly buy a gift for. After all the gifts have been bought and put under the tree, a person [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=math152.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4483486&amp;post=878&amp;subd=math152&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Programming Projects</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 12:20:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prof. Kate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi everyone, Several students did optional computer projects this year.  The first is a finite field calculator, which will multiply elements of a finite field.  These are respresented as polynomials in x, a primitive element.  To find out what polynomial is being used to generate the finite field, try multiply the appropriate power of x. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=math152.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4483486&amp;post=872&amp;subd=math152&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Change Ringing!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 06:49:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy Holidays Math 152! A few Saturdays ago, Kate took a couple of us to visit the change ringing rehearsal at Old North Church in Boston. Old North Church houses the oldest bells in North America, which have hung in the church spire since 1745. There are 8 bells, and they are huge! They weigh [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=math152.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4483486&amp;post=864&amp;subd=math152&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Casino Night Preview: Markov Chains and Blackjack</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 01:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post (last post ever!) assumes some knowledge of Markov chains (Wikipedia). In 2004, two professors from Rice University modeled various aspects of the game of Blackjack with Markov chains (link). Their model for the dealer&#8217;s hand is the simplest, but provides valuable insight. The dealer&#8217;s hand can be modeled in 36 states: 10 initial [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=math152.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4483486&amp;post=842&amp;subd=math152&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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