Mathematical intelligencer

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  Año 1999, Vol. 21, Número 2

  • Real fish, real numbers, real jobs.

    N.j. Wildberger

    pág. 4

    

  • Going with the flow.

    Lewis Wolpert

    pág. 7

    

  • Combinatorial snapshots.

    Gian-Carlo Rota

    pág. 8

    

  • Pentangram--a new puzzle.

    Alexander Shen, Klaus Kuhnle

    pág. 15

    

  • The canopy and shortest path in a self-contacting fractal tree.

    Benoit B. Mandelbrot, Michael Frame

    pág. 18

    

  • History of the IHES and its foundation by Leon Motchane.

    Louis Michel

    pág. 28

    

  • What shape is a loaded die?

    Robert J. Macg. Dawson, Wendy A. Finbow

    pág. 32

    

  • Yea why try her raw wet hat.

    Burkard Polster

    pág. 38

    

  • Anstice and Kirkman: Mathematical clerics.: Mathematical clerics.

    Ian Anderson, Terry Griggs

    pág. 44

    

  • Tourism to the future.

    Javier Bracho

    pág. 47

    

  • Felix Klein's commemorative plaque in Dusseldorf.

    Nenad Trinajstic

    pág. 50

    

  • Knot labelings and knots without labelings.

    Susan Harris, Gregory Quenell

    pág. 51

    

  • The Poincare--Mittag-Leffler relationship.

    Jeremy Gray

    pág. 58

    

  • Reviews.

    Marion Cohen

    pág. 65

    

  • International Congresses of Mathematics.

    Robin Wilson

    pág. 80