Joseph Malkevitch

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Name	Joseph Malkevitch
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Seen	Dec 31 2010 at 18:21
Website	york.cuny.edu/~malk
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I am a mathematician interested in geometry, combinatorics, mathematical modeling, and mathematics education.

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Your favorite surprising connections in Mathematics

Experimental Mathematics

What is your favorite “strange” function?

Examples of great mathematical writing

Examples of mathematics motivated by technological considerations

Why are planar graphs so exceptional?

One-step problems in geometry

Curriculum reform success stories at an “average” research university

The shortest path in first passage percolation

What exactly is the relationship between codes over finite fields and Euclidean sphere-packings?

Generalizations of Planar Graphs

Fields of mathematics that were dormant for a long time until someone revitalized them

Euclid with Birkhoff

Solving NP problems in (usually) Polynomial time?

Math Vs Social Science

Fundamental Examples (2)

Is every finite group a group of “symmetries”? (2)

Origins of Mathematical Symbols/Names

What are examples of theorems get extensions based on simple observation?

The Symmetry of a Soccer Ball

Strings and “co-subsequences”

Is there any geometry where the triangle inquality fails?

Probability of random permutation having certain cycles

Texts on the General History of Contemporary Combinatorics

Ways to “regularize” a graph

When sticks fall, will they weave?

Solving a system of linear inequalities — what is the dimension of the solution set?

determining k-edge-connectivity of a graph

Reconstructing a fraction from its first digits

What are trig classes like within a universe that’s “noticeably” hyperbolic?

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