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Williams Wins Chicken

By Frank Morgan, November 10, 2012

In a hard-fought match, Williams defeated Middlebury in the annual Green Chicken mathematics competition, winning 125 to 118, thanks to a large degree to a deep bench with first years who stepped up when needed. Top scorer was Jared Hallett ’13, followed by Samantha Petti ’15 and then first years… Continue reading »

Burger’s Text Praised in Washington Times

By Frank Morgan, November 1, 2012

Prof. Ed Burger’s new text with Michael Starbird, The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking, just got an enthusiastic review in the Washington Times. Ex-President Schapiro called it “enormously insightful.” Ex-President Chandler said it shows that “mathematical expertise is within the reach of the general population.” Burger appeared briefly on WNYT… Continue reading »

Measuring the Immeasurable?

By Bernhard Klingenberg, November 1, 2012

In statistics, we draw conclusions from data. But to get data, we need to be able to measure the variable(s) that we are interested in. Measuring can be very crude (say, a trait is absent or present) or rather sophisticated (the expression levels of large numbers of genes). In the… Continue reading »