Professor Richard De Veaux was interviewed on the public radio WAMC Speakers Corner by Alan Chartock. What Chartock called the data mining crisis De Veaux called the long-term data mining evolution. Can one use the vast amount of available data to figure out whatever you… Continue reading »
The 2013 Williams College SMALL Undergraduate Research Project is in full swing, many preparing for the summer meeting of the Mathematical Association of America in Hartford next week. The SMALL Undergraduate Research Project marched proudly in the Williamstown Parade, July 4,… Continue reading »
The SMALL Undergraduate Research Project marched proudly in the Williamstown Parade, July 4, 2013:… Continue reading »
Math/Stats had much to be proud of at today’s Commencement, with a record 70 math majors graduating. Professor Ed Burger got an honorary degree on his way to be President of Southwestern University. Student awards included an NSF graduate fellowship for James Wilcox and and a Herchel Smith Fellowship for… Continue reading »
On the way to pick up exams from the Registrar’s Office, which nobly maintains long hours this exam week, I stopped to pick up a Sunday paper for them. I had no money, and the store said they couldn’t give me the paper on credit. At that moment, the man… Continue reading »
The burly Russian dive master assured us that we had nothing to fear, that sharks do not attack humans. But as we started to hop over the side of the boat, I noticed that he was putting on chain mail gloves. I was on a Spring Break trip down to Honduras… Continue reading »
Math has finally renumbered our courses according to difficulty, with Linear Algebra moved from Math 211 to its central spot Math 250 and the core courses moved to the middle of the 300s, with the pre-core electives below and the post-core electives above. (For the full list of our offerings… Continue reading »
Humans have been investigating mathematical objects for thousands of years, and yet there is still so much more to investigate. Over 2000 years ago, Archimedes penned a letter to Diogenes describing a new method for computing areas and volumes. He performs a thought experiment whereby he weighs two shapes on… Continue reading »
You can sign up to give a 15-minute talk by March 4, 2013. On Saturday April 6, 2013 Williams College will be hosting the 20th Annual Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference (HRUMC). One of the first conferences of its kind, HRUMC was founded by four local schools: Siena… Continue reading »
The Lunar New Year, also called the Spring Festival, is the most important traditional holiday in China. It is also celebrated in some other eastern Asian countries. It refers to the beginning of the new year based on the Chinese lunar calendar. The exact date of the Spring Festival in… Continue reading »