Math Competition Results
Avery Schiller obtained a score of 14 on the 85th William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition run on December 7, 2024.
Archives for Mathematics Category
Indiana Colleges Mathematics Contest
Gustavo Gonzalez and Avery Schiller earned third place in the Indiana Colleges Mathematics Contest held at Marina University on Friday, April 5, 2024.
Fall Conference Trip
Three Goshen College students attended the Mathematical Association of America Indiana Section meeting held at Notre Dame.
Do Dogs Know Calculus? Bifurcations at the Beach
Timothy J Pennings from Calvin University spoke to a group of students and faculty on October 20, 2023. He showed that dogs – at least his dog, Elvis – knew calculus. That is, Elvis could find the optimal – fastest – route to a ball…
Indiana Colleges Mathematics Contest
Marlon Aparacio, Johanna Morford-Obertz, and Isaac Fisher after the competition.
Math Contest and Conference
Nine Goshen College students participated in the 2019 Indiana Colleges Mathematics Contest at the University of Indianapolis on April 5, 2019. Forty teams of up to three students each from Indiana colleges and universities competed by answering eight mathematics problems during a two hour period. The Goshen College team of…
Voting Power
Mathematics major Nick Schrock worked with David Housman on a Maple Scholars project examining voting power when the voters’ ideological positions can be inferred from past votes. The Shapley-Shubik and Banzhaf power indices have been used to measure the voting power of voters in a variety of political institutions,…
Math Competition Winners!
Goshen College students performed well in the Putnam Mathematical Competition.
Cake Cutting
Christian Bechler and Kenan Bitikofer worked with David Housman on a Maple Scholars project examining cake cutting.
Indiana Math Competition
Goshen College fielded three teams in the Indiana Collegiate Mathematics Competition.