Volume 1, Issue 1

DOI: 10.1137/08S010062

Authors: Justine M. McMillan (Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, Canada), Megan J. Lickley (Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, Canada)
Project Advisors: Richard Karsten, Ronald Haynes

Abstract: Large tidal currents exist in the Minas Passage, which connects the Minas Basin to the Bay of Fundy off the north-western coast of Nova Scotia. The...

DOI: 10.1137/08S010050

Authors: Stuart Boersma (Central Washington University)
Project Advisors:

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to introduce the reader to the mathematical construct known as holonomy. Holonomy is a measurement of the change in a...

DOI: 10.1137/08S010098

Authors: Daniel P. Pike (School of Mathematical Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York)
Project Advisors: David L. Farnsworth (School of Mathematical Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York)

Abstract: Benford's Law says that many naturally occurring sets of observations follow a certain logarithmic law. Relative frequencies of the first significa...

DOI: 10.1137/08S010025

Authors: Kamron Saniee (New Providence High School, New Providence, NJ)
Project Advisors: Richard Glahn (New Providence High School, New Providence, NJ)

Abstract: We derive a simple formula for constructing the degree n multinomial function which interpolates a set of {n+m \choose n} points in Rm+1, when the...