The MSUM Mathematics Department will be hosting the Tri-College Math Contest for area middle and high school students on campus over spring break. More than 2,000 students are registered for the contest from locations extending to Bismarck, Larimore, Grand Forks, Thief River Falls, Mahnomen, Wadena, Alexandria, and Breckenridge. This year’s contest problems were drawn up by the Concordia math department […]
MSUM upperclassmen LeAnn Washenberger (Secondary Math Education, Physics minor) and Shouvik Bhattacharya (Physics major, Mathematics minor) participated in the Mathematical Contest in Modeling 2013. They formulated an optimized model, which will allow users to bake brownies without burning them, as the baking pans distribute the heat evenly on their surfaces.
Adam M. Goyt, Mathematics, Brady Keller (co 2014), and Jon Rue (co 2011) had their paper “Statistical Distributions and q-Analogues of k-Fibonacci Numbers” published in the Electronic Journal of Combinatorics. In their paper they study the distribution of permutation and set partition statistics over sets counted by the k-Fibonacci numbers. These sets arise naturally out of the notion of pattern […]
Are certain numbers better for winning the $425 million Powerball? FARGO – No one won the Powerball drawing over the weekend. That means a record jackpot of $425 million will be up for grab on Wednesday. Besides that very large amount there are some interesting numbers behind Powerball drawings. By: Rob Kupec, Forum Communications, INFORUM Watch the video here.
Sayel Ali, Mathematics, had his paper, “The phi-ratio tests” published in Elemente der Mathematik, a Journal of the Swiss Mathematical Society published by the European Mathematical Society, Volume 67, Issue 4, 2012, pp. 164–168. The paper is a joint work with Marion Deutsche Cohen from Arcadia University, Pa. In this paper a family of new convergence tests, the phi-ratio tests, […]