Welcome Amy DeCelles
Amy DeCelles is Patricia Oakley's sabbatical replacement for 2011-2012.
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Fair Allocation with Budget Constraints
Chaim Hodges explored envy-free allocations in inheritance problems.
2011 MCM Results
Chaim Hodges, Emily Fretz, and Andy Clemens participated in the 2011 Mathematical Contest in Modeling.
2011 ICMC Results
Chaim Hodges, Bruck Mulat, and Andrew Clemens competed April 8 as one of twenty-eight teams in the 2011 Indiana Colleges Mathematics Contest.
Fractal Music
Senior math major Sarah Rody to present "Fractal Music" at the 13th annual Student Research Symposium.
2010 Putnam Competition Results
Three students represented Goshen College in the 71st William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition
Selling a house
Selling a house We close the semester with a question from the 1869-70 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Entrace Examination. By selling a house and lot for $5,790, the owner lost 3 1/2 per cent. What was their cost?
Mathematics and playing games
Listen to this podcast from Professor Housman (5/17/10)
What do conflict and cooperation have to do with math?
Professor Housman’s new textbook has the answer
Birthday
Birthday Fifty traditional age college students are gathered in a room. What is the probability that there is at least one pair of students who share the same birth date (year, month, and day)?