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Joseph O'Rourke

Northampton, MA, USA

http://cs.smith.edu/~jorourke/

Professor & chair of Computer Science; Professor of Mathematics.

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What is the smallest unknown natural number?
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Examples of unexpected mathematical images
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Theorems demoted back to conjectures
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An example of a beautiful proof that would be accessible at the high school level?
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Fascinating moments: equivalent mathematical discoveries
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Gaussian prime spirals
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Mathematical conjectures on which applications depend
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Interesting mathematical documentaries
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Noteworthy, but not so famous conjectures resolved recent years
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Which polygons can be turned inside out by a smooth deformation?
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Modern Mathematical Achievements Accessible to Undergraduates
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What seemingly innocuous results in mathematics require advanced proofs?
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Visibility of vertices in polyhedra
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Short papers for undergraduate course on reading scholarly math
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Easy math proofs or visual examples to make high school students enthusiastic about math
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Partitioning a polygon into convex parts
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Distributing points evenly on a sphere
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Taking “Zooming in on a point of a graph” seriously
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Most intriguing mathematical epigraphs
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How to get past the “mystique” of Maths
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John Nash's Mathematical Legacy
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Interesting Applications of the Classical Stokes Theorem?
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Name of this famous question?
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Refereeing a Paper
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Intuition behind the ricci flow
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Books on music theory intended for mathematicians
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Real-world examples of more “obscure” geometric figures
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Trapped rays bouncing between two convex bodies
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How is differential geometry used in immediate industrial applications and what are some sources to learn about it?
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Important formulas in combinatorics
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