Edited by Daniel H. Ullman, Daniel J. Velleman, Stan Wagon, Douglas B. West
{"title":"Problems and Solutions","authors":"Edited by Daniel H. Ullman, Daniel J. Velleman, Stan Wagon, Douglas B. West","doi":"10.1080/00029890.2024.2351727","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00029890.2024.2351727","url":null,"abstract":"Published in The American Mathematical Monthly (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":501497,"journal":{"name":"The American Mathematical Monthly","volume":"219 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141151410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unlocking Your Bike the Easy Way","authors":"Mathias Sonnleitner","doi":"10.1080/00029890.2024.2346070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00029890.2024.2346070","url":null,"abstract":"Combination locks are widely used to secure bicycles. We consider a combination lock consisting of adjacent rotating dials with the first nonnegative integers printed on each of them. Assuming that...","PeriodicalId":501497,"journal":{"name":"The American Mathematical Monthly","volume":"97 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141171119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"100 Years Ago This Month in The American Mathematical Monthly","authors":"Edited by Vadim Ponomarenko","doi":"10.1080/00029890.2024.2345573","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00029890.2024.2345573","url":null,"abstract":"Published in The American Mathematical Monthly (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":501497,"journal":{"name":"The American Mathematical Monthly","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141151408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Liouville’s Theorem for Conformal Maps","authors":"Mathew Kushelman, Peter McGrath","doi":"10.1080/00029890.2024.2344409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00029890.2024.2344409","url":null,"abstract":"A theorem of Liouville asserts that the simplest angle-preserving transformations on Euclidean space—translations, dilations, reflections, and inversions—generate all angle-preserving transformatio...","PeriodicalId":501497,"journal":{"name":"The American Mathematical Monthly","volume":"56 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140888438","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sums of Two Squares Visualized","authors":"Ishan Banerjee, Amites Sarkar","doi":"10.1080/00029890.2024.2344421","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00029890.2024.2344421","url":null,"abstract":"In 1972, John Brillhart described an algorithm for expressing a prime p≡1 (mod4) as the sum of two squares. Brillhart’s algorithm, which is based on the Euclidean algorithm, is simplicity itself. H...","PeriodicalId":501497,"journal":{"name":"The American Mathematical Monthly","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141151406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shamil Asgarli, Michael Hartglass, Daniel Ostrov, Byron Walden
{"title":"A Fair Shake: How Close Can The Sum Of n-Sided Dice Be To A Uniform Distribution?","authors":"Shamil Asgarli, Michael Hartglass, Daniel Ostrov, Byron Walden","doi":"10.1080/00029890.2024.2347163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00029890.2024.2347163","url":null,"abstract":"Two possibly unfair n-sided dice, both labeled 1,2,…,n, are rolled, and the sum is recorded. How should the dice’s sides be weighted so that the resulting sum is closest to the uniform distribution...","PeriodicalId":501497,"journal":{"name":"The American Mathematical Monthly","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141151409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Exact Bound for the Inner Product of Vectors in ℂ\u0000 n","authors":"I. Pinelis","doi":"10.1080/00029890.2024.2344412","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00029890.2024.2344412","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":501497,"journal":{"name":"The American Mathematical Monthly","volume":"89 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141016262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}