Pub Date : 2024-03-29DOI: 10.1080/00029890.2024.2325330
L. Halbeisen, N. Hungerbühler
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Pub Date : 2024-03-29DOI: 10.1080/00029890.2024.2325863
Christian Aebi, Grant Cairns
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Pub Date : 2024-03-29DOI: 10.1080/00029890.2024.2329020
Edited by Daniel H. Ullman, Daniel J. Velleman, Stan Wagon, Douglas B. West
Published in The American Mathematical Monthly (Ahead of Print, 2024)
发表于《美国数学月刊》(2024 年提前出版)
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Pub Date : 2024-03-27DOI: 10.1080/00029890.2024.2323961
Max A. Alekseyev
The desire for privacy significantly impacts various aspects of social behavior as illustrated by people’s tendency to seek out the most secluded spot when multiple options are available. In partic...
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Pub Date : 2024-03-27DOI: 10.1080/00029890.2024.2322944
Adrian Rice
The first proof of the transcendence of π by Ferdinand Lindemann in 1882 prompted the publication of a wave of further proofs, all attempting to elucidate, simplify, or generalize this epoch-making...
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Pub Date : 2024-03-27DOI: 10.1080/00029890.2024.2325325
Allan Berele, Stefan Catoiu
The k-centroids Gk of a polygon, for k = 0, 1, 2, are the centroids of the polygon when the mass is equally distributed respectively between the vertices, along the perimeter, or across the area. A...
当 k = 0、1、2 时,多边形的 k 个中心点 Gk 是质量分别平均分布在顶点、周长或面积上时多边形的中心点。A...
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Pub Date : 2024-03-25DOI: 10.1080/00029890.2024.2325862
Diana Davis, Serge Troubetzkoy
We study the set of lengths of the horizontal chords of a continuous function. We give a new proof of Hopf’s characterization of this set, and show that it implies that no matter which function we ...
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Pub Date : 2024-03-22DOI: 10.1080/00029890.2024.2325884
Rachel Weir
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