Category Archives: applied math

Girls’ Angle Bulletin, Volume 17, Number 3

Posted on February 29, 2024 by girlsangle

The electronic version of the latest issue of the Girls’ Angle Bulletin is now available on our website. Can you figure out the connection between the cover image and cubic polynomials? We open with the third of four installments of … Continue reading →

Posted in applied math, math | Tagged computability theory, cubics, Descartes' Rule of Signs, domination sets, graph theory, Jillian Cervantes, Karen Lange, Pamela E. Harris, rational numbers, Robert Donley, standard tableaux, Young tableaux | Leave a comment

Girls’ Angle Bulletin, Volume 16, Number 4

Posted on April 30, 2023 by girlsangle

This issue’s interviewee is Katharine Ott, who is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Bates College. In this interview, which was conducted by Ken Fan and Raegan Phillips, Katharine discusses a wide range of topics, including her role as the … Continue reading →

Posted in applied math, math, Math Education | Tagged Anna Ma, Candido's identity, compositions, counting, domino tiling, Fibonacci, generating functions, Karia Dibert, Katharine Ott, language models, natural language processing, partially ordered sets, rational numbers, Robert Donley, sequences | Leave a comment

Girls’ Angle Bulletin, Volume 16, Number 1

Posted on October 31, 2022 by girlsangle

The electronic version of the latest issue of the Girls’ Angle Bulletin is now available on our website. Volume 16, Number 1 opens with an interview with Professor Ann Trenk. Professor Trenk is the Lewis Atterbury Stimson Professor of Mathematics … Continue reading →

Posted in applied math, math, Math Education | Tagged Anna Ma, Emily Caputo, floor, Girls' Angle Bulletin, graphing equations, greatest common factor, perceptron, posets, rational numbers, Robert Donley | Leave a comment

Girls’ Angle Bulletin, Volume 15, Number 2

Posted on December 31, 2021 by girlsangle

The electronic version of the latest issue of the Girls’ Angle Bulletin is now available on our website. The cover shows all 35 ways to tile a 4 by 4 rectangle with 1 by 1 and 2 by 2 tiles, … Continue reading →

Posted in applied math, Contest Math, math, Math Education | Tagged 2022, Anna Ma, Buckingham Browne and Nichols Middle School, Cayley graphs, combinatorics, Diophantine equations, Heubach, lamplighter group, missing data, Pell's equation, perfect squares, quasi-isometry, recursion, Schneider, tilings, triangular numbers | Leave a comment

Girls’ Angle Bulletin, Volume 14, Number 5

Posted on June 30, 2021 by girlsangle

The electronic version of the latest issue of the Girls’ Angle Bulletin is now available on our website. Volume 14, Number 5 begins with an interview with Petronela Radu, Olson Professor of Mathematics and Undergraduate Chair at the University of … Continue reading →

Posted in applied math, math, Math Education | Tagged AnaMaria Perez, Beatty sequences, Fan Wei, Fibonacci, golden ratio, Jovana Andrejevic, juggling, Laura Pierson, Maria Rodriguez Hertz, Pamela E. Harris, Petronela Radu, probability, roots, vector partitions, Wythoff's game | Leave a comment

Girls’ Angle Bulletin, Volume 14, Number 1

Posted on October 31, 2020 by girlsangle

The electronic version of the latest issue of the Girls’ Angle Bulletin is now available on our website. We open Volume 14 with the first half of a two-part interview with Williams College Associate Professor of Mathematics Pamela E. Harris. … Continue reading →

Posted in applied math, math, Math Education | Tagged combinatorics, crafts, Deanna Needell, icosahedron, Lathisms.org, logic, Lyme disease, modeling, number search, Pamela E. Harris, primes, squares, switch problems, water | Leave a comment

Girls’ Angle Bulletin, Volume 13, Number 4

Posted on April 30, 2020 by girlsangle

The electronic version of the latest issue of the Girls’ Angle Bulletin is now available on our website. We open with the concluding half of our interview with Draper Labs mathematician Erin Compaan. Dr. Compaan received her doctoral degree in … Continue reading →

Posted in applied math, math, Math Education | Tagged Ana Chrysa Maravelias, Antonella Catanzaro, Bradford Kimball, COVID-19, Darius Sinha, Deanna Needell, Erin Compaan, geometry, Henry Kirk, Jaemin Feldman, LCM, Mikayla Higgins, Multi-decker open-face meat sandwich, Noam Elkies, Optimal paths, Traveling salesman, zigzags, zigzags theorem | 2 Comments

Girls’ Angle Bulletin, Volume 12, Number 5

Posted on June 30, 2019 by girlsangle

The electronic version of the latest issue of the Girls’ Angle Bulletin is now available on our website. This issue’s interview subject is Tanya Leise, Professor in the Mathematics and Statistics Department of Amherst College. Tanya uses math to study … Continue reading →

Posted in applied math, math, Math Education | Tagged chromatic number, circadian rhythms, cosine, Deanna Needell, Erdős, graphs, Jade Buckwalter, Laura Pierson, Martina Maximovich, matching, Matthew de Courcy-Ireland, Milena Harned, Miriam Rittenberg, ordinals, paper folding, permutations, sine, Tanya Leise, wavelets, Whitney Souery | Leave a comment

Cubes in one-point perspective

Posted on June 6, 2014 by girlsangle

This post is a reply to Jamie’s comment on Drawn to Math: Would anyone know how to construct a cube in one point perspective? This is an excellent question because it isolates an important, simplified situation that enables one to study key aspects of … Continue reading →

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Inspirations

Posted on February 12, 2012 by girlsangle

The Girls’ Angle Support Network is a crucial component of Girls’ Angle’s math educational strategy. The Support Network consists of professional women who use math in their work in some vital way and have agreed to visit the club to … Continue reading →

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