by John Ehrke | Feb 7, 2020 | Problem of the Week
Discover Something Let N be one more than the product of four consecutive positive integers. What can you say about N? Prove it. (Of course, what you say about N must have some substance. Trivial statements are unacceptable.) Please submit your work to...
by Jackson Shoultz | Feb 3, 2020 | Mu Sigma Events
Hello again everyone! We hope to see you all at our meeting on Thursday. It will take place in OSC 240, NOT OSC 235 as previously posted. See you Thursday!
by Jackson Shoultz | Jan 30, 2020 | Mu Sigma Events
Hello everyone! We hope you had a great Christmas holiday and have had a good start to the semester! The first Mu Sigma meeting of 2020 will occur next Thursday, the 6th of February at 11:30am in OSC 235. The agenda will be as follows: MAA Conference is coming up! You...
by John Ehrke | Jan 27, 2020 | Problem of the Week
Win the Contest This problem is from Grant Fikes. Every year at the annual Winter Wizard World conference, there is a contest for student teams from each of the wizard training schools. This year each team has five student members, and each member of each team has...
by Wyatt Witemeyer | Nov 19, 2019 | Mu Sigma Events
Mu Sigma Math Talk! Time: Thursday 11/21/19, after chapel (starting around 11:45am) Place: OSC 235 Speaker: Wyatt Witemeyer Title: BASEically the best talk on BASES outside your BASIC curriculum Topic: Bases! Base Conversion Methods Base Arithmetic Base Fractions...
by Bethany Witemeyer | Nov 18, 2019 | Mu Sigma Events
Hey guys! If you have time, you should totally go to this awesome event! litmas graphci
by Bethany Witemeyer | Nov 11, 2019 | Mu Sigma Events
Hope you all can join us for our meeting 11/12/19 in OSC 235! Here is the agenda for this meeting: Reminders about upcoming events Bethany shares recent experience at SCUDEM Pray over the rest of the semester (because this is a busy time of year and we all probably...
by John Ehrke | Nov 1, 2019 | Problem of the Week
What Does This Thing Do? Determine what the following algorithm does, and then prove that it does what you think it does. {Input: a real number a and a positive integer n.} begin p := 1 q := a i := n while i > 0 do if i is odd then p := p*q {Do the next two steps...
by John Ehrke | Oct 11, 2019 | Problem of the Week
Two Handy Inequalities This problem was suggested by Alexander Karabegov. Prove the following inequalities are true for all positive real numbers x and y, with equality holding if and only if x = y. Hint: (x-y)2 is greater than or equal to 0. Please submit all work to...
by John Ehrke | Oct 9, 2019 | Mu Sigma Events
The Complex Elephant Returns! Join us on Thursday, October 17th from 11:45 – 12:45 in room OSC 240 as Dr. Karabegov gives a colloquium on the manifestation of complex numbers in our real calculus sequence. In a previous talk on complex numbers, Dr. Karabegov...
