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Girls’ Angle Bulletin, Volume 16, Number 2

Posted on December 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 2 opens with an interview with Professor Ellen Goldstein. Ellen is an Assistant Professor of the Practice of Mathematics … Continue reading →

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Girls’ Angle Bulletin, Volume 9, Number 2

Posted on December 31, 2015 by girlsangle

The electronic version of the latest issue of the Girls’ Angle Bulletin is now available on our website. Volume 9, Number 2 begins with the first half of an interview with French mathematician Alice Guionnet. Prof. Guionnet is a professor of … Continue reading →

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Girls’ Angle Bulletin, Volume 8, Number 6

Posted on August 31, 2015 by girlsangle

The electronic version of the latest issue of the Girls’ Angle Bulletin is now available on our website. The object on the cover of Volume 8, Number 6 is called the Chebyshev Lollipop. It is based directly on an idea … Continue reading →

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Math and MEMS: More Exponentials

Posted on September 23, 2011 by girlsangle

Yesterday, Allyson Hartzell, the Director of Failure Analysis, Test, and Reliability at Pixtronix, Inc., visited Girls’ Angle to tell us about how she uses math in her work. She works with Microelectricomechanical Systems, or MEMS. MEMS are tiny machines. They … Continue reading →

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Exponential Growth is REALLY Powerful!

Posted on September 21, 2011 by girlsangle

Internet traffic, the Richter scale for measuring earthquakes, the spread of disease, our response to brightness, and Intel co-founder Gordon Moore’s Law all involve exponential growth. Exponential growth even applies to noodle making, as I’ll detail below! With all these … Continue reading →

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