Beige... I am selling my house. I have had it for 10+ years. I have two very nice realtors helping me with the sale. To get ready for the sale, they suggested I paint the entire inside of the place. They chose Navaho White. I took their advice and now each room is Navaho White. To me Navaho White looks like a...

Surprising Results 2: Rings of Equal Vol... Last post we looked at Problem 1, The String Problem. This week we’ll take a look at a problem with an even more surprising result. I’ll call this problem The Ring Problem. In the post, the post of the string problem, we imagined two spheres, a basketball and the Earth. This week, rather than using...

Surprising Results 1: Strings Surroundin... Last week must have been the week to see some new interesting problems. My colleague Greg reminded me of one I had seen as a graduate student and then told me of one that I had a hard time believing could be true. This week I will post Problem 1, the String Problem, and next week Problem 2, the Ring...

A Hard Easy Problem... I use Excel to record exam and homework grades. I created a spreadsheet probably 10 years ago to keep track of and totals for each of my classes. It works really well and is easy to use. This semester, as I entered the homework and exam scores, I noticed a most interesting event occurring. As students...