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Armstrong Math
Spring Problem Session
office: UH293
phone: 344-3186
Introduction
- History: The group of AASU mathematics faculty and students known as the Armstrong Problem Solvers was formed in the Spring of 2005 out of a desire to continue through the spring semester many of the problem solving opportunities afforded by the Putnam seminar each fall. After a lively debate over what to call themselves, the Armstrong Problem Solvers burst onto the scene by successfully solving all fourteen of the problems posed in the Fall 2004 issue of the Pi Mu Epsilon Journal. Two of those solutions were published in the Fall 2005 issue of that journal, with acknowledgments for the other twelve.
Activity: Each spring thereafter, the Armstrong Problem Solvers have met weekly to work on journal problems. As of Oct 5, 2009, the group has had a total of eleven solutions published or to appear, and another 70 solutions acknowledged, in the following journals:the American Mathematical Monthly, Mathematics Magazine,
College Mathematics Journal, Math Horizons,
and the Pi Mu Epsilon Journal.- Dr. James Brawner - As the group is participating in the Putnam Seminar 2009 in the fall, the activity of solving journal problems will be in recess, but it will resume in the spring, and we invite students and faculty members who enjoy solving math problems to participate in the spring via this website.
Currently in recess
Other Solutions
Webmaster: Sungkon Chang
- Student/Faculty Involvement: Problem solving lies at the heart of undergraduate mathematics, and the faculty strongly encourage students to participate in this weekly seminar.
Our seminar is a great vehicle to exposure, maturity, and creativity in undergraduate mathematics, and it creates a unique space where students and faculty can casually engage in a scholarly activity.
If you are a faculty member who likes to do math, this will be a great daily mathematical yoga!
Beginning Spring 2010, we will use this website to accommodate more students and faculty who are interested but can't physically be present. We shall post here via a secured link the list of problems, photographs of all board work during the seminar, and solutions. -
Armstrong Problem Solvers
Faculty James Brawner, Sungkon Chang, Tim Ellis, Tim McMillan, Jared Schlieper Students Scott King, William Nathan Hack, Dan Holland - Date/Time/Place: Jan-April 30, Wednesday, 12-1pm, UH 123. During the summer, there won't be a regular meeting, but we shall continue to work on the current problems individually.
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During the spring/summer 2009, we have submitted 20 solutions.
The solutions for Math Horizons #225
and #230 are published in the Sep/Nov 2009 issues, and the solution for Mathematics Magazine #1807 will be published in the December 2009 issue.
The figure at the right side illustrates the setting of Problem #230 in Math Horizon.
Two solutions for College Mathematics Journal, all five solutions for the Pi Mu Epsilon Journal, and three solutions for Math Horizons have been acknowledged.
Given below is the list of our solutions from 2009, and we would to like to share here most of them as their due dates are past.
College Mathematics Journal #886, #889, #894 #886 & #889 are acknowledged.Pi Mu Epsilon Journal #1184, #1187, #1188, #1189, #1195 All are acknowledgedAmerican Mathematical Monthly #11394, #11395, #11397 Mathematics Magazine #1806, #1807, #1810, #1816 Math Horizons #224, #225, #226, #227, #228, #230, #231
• The Math Horizons Sep 2009 publishes
a solution for #224(b) modeled
on the Armstrong Solver's.• The solutions for #226, #227, & #228
were acknowledged, and it quoted
the group's extended solution to #228.
Spring 2009
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