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MAA Found Math for the Week of May 13, 2013

nobody@flickr.com (MAA Found Math) — Tue, 14 May 2013 11:13:19 -0700

MAA Found Math: Paul Casillas (Clark College) sent us this photo writing, "I found the graph of r = sin(5 theta) in this spray pattern. The photo was taken in March at the Royal Decameron at Playa Salinitas in El Salvador."

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MAA Found Math for the Week of May 6, 2013

nobody@flickr.com (MAA Found Math) — Mon, 06 May 2013 08:37:26 -0700

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MAA Found Math: Solidified lava called columnar basalt found on Maui, Hawaii. The formations are created by the quick cooling of basaltic lava flow. The column cross sections are often hexagonal but may also have five sides. Photo by Adriana Salerno.

MAA Found Math for the Week of February 25, 2013

nobody@flickr.com (MAA Found Math) — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 12:04:54 -0800

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MAA Found Math: Boyd Fulmer, an engineering student at the University of South Florida, took this photo of a helical staircase at the Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, FL. He writes, "This staircase is produced by the 3D space parametric equations: x=rcost, y=rsint, z= c t".

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MAA Found Math for the Week of January 21, 2013

nobody@flickr.com (MAA Found Math) — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 10:25:39 -0800

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MAA Found Math: Fractal-like branching structures found in the ice crystals on a window. Photo taken by Paul Zorn (St. Olaf College) on a sub-zero day in Minnesota.

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MAA Found Math for the Week of September 10, 2012

nobody@flickr.com (MAA Found Math) — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:25:27 -0700

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MAA Found Math: James Heikkenen found these bottles of wine in Kerrville, TX.

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MAA Found Math for the Week of August 27, 2012

nobody@flickr.com (MAA Found Math) — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 12:08:57 -0700

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MAA Found Math: Adriana Salerno (Bates College, AMS Blogger) found this pi-shaped tree root while on a hike to Wallace Falls in Gold Bar, Washington. Salerno was in Washington for the Sage Days 42: Women in Sage 3 conference.
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MAA Found Math for the Week of July 16, 2012

nobody@flickr.com (MAA Found Math) — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 10:55:43 -0700

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A window during the 53rd International Mathematical Olympiad in Mar del Plata, Argentina. Photo by Lucila Bucari, Fundacion Olimiapiada Matematica Argentina (FOMA).

USA Team Places Third, Shen Scores Third Best Score at 53rd International Math Olympiad.

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MAA Found Math for the Week of March 18, 2013

nobody@flickr.com (MAA Found Math) — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 08:16:38 -0700

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MAA Found Math: Fractal structures support the ceiling in the Stuttgart Airport, Stuttgart, Germany. Photo by Murphy Waggoner (Simpson College).

MAA Found Math for the Week of January 28, 2013

nobody@flickr.com (MAA Found Math) — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 07:58:33 -0800

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MAA FOUND MATH: The Freedom Bridge ("Vabaduse sild") in Tartu, Estonia was constructed in 2009. The roadway is suspended from an arch in the form of an inverted catenary (a catenary is the shape of the graph of a hyperbolic cosine, i.e., y = c cosh(x/c) for some constant c ). The arch straddles the roadway at an angle so that the cars drive under the arch when crossing the Emajõgi river. Photo by Roger Nelsen (Lewis & Clark College).

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MAA Found Math for the Week of December 3, 2012

nobody@flickr.com (MAA Found Math) — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 09:15:04 -0800

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MAA Found Math: The ruins of the entrance to the Temple of Hadrian in Ephesus, Turkey, illustrate how the geometry inherent in architecture is often a structure's most lasting feature. Photo by Feryal Alayont (Grand Valley State University)

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MAA Found Math for the Week of November 19, 2012

nobody@flickr.com (MAA Found Math) — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 07:29:13 -0800

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MAA Found Math: James Metz sent us this photo of a tree with a branch imitating the sine curve in Washington Park, Springfield, Illinois.

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MAA Found Math for the Week of November 12, 2012

nobody@flickr.com (MAA Found Math) — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 08:16:24 -0800

MAA Found Math posted a photo:

Stephen J. Wilson (Iowa State University) sent us this photo of the High Trestle Bridge across the Des Moines River between Madrid and Woodward, Iowa. A spiral is formed as the 41 square structures rotate along the span of the bridge.

We originally featured this bridge on July 11, 2011.

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MAA Found Math for the Week of October 22, 2012

nobody@flickr.com (MAA Found Math) — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 12:35:10 -0700

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MAA Found Math: MAA Treasurer John Kenelly sent us this of a photo of a Reuleaux triangle table with the description, "Everyone can sit around this table at an equal distance."

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Fall is here and you know what that means? Mathematical pumpkins! Did you use math to carve your pumpkin this year? Send photos to editor@maa.org and we'll add them to our gallery. The best photo will be featured on our Halloween MAA Found Math page

MAA Found Math for the Week of October 15, 2012

nobody@flickr.com (MAA Found Math) — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 08:04:24 -0700

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Found Math: Michael Radin, associate professor of Mathematics at the Rochester Institute of Technology, sent us this photo from the Azores with the followign description: "Opposite reflection; the patterns of the fractal-like rocks and the fractal-like clouds reflect with their patterns opposite to each other".

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MAA Found Math for the Week of September 17, 2012

nobody@flickr.com (MAA Found Math) — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 11:54:19 -0700

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Japheth Wood (Bard MAT Program) sent us this photo with the following description. "Here's a photo I took last night while on my way to the Museum of Math Math Encounters talk at Baruch College. It looks like a Proof Without Words proof of the Theorem of Pythagoras that someone has thrown in the trash."

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MAA Found Math for the Week of June 25, 2012

nobody@flickr.com (MAA Found Math) — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 09:04:53 -0700

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MAA Found Math: A sidewalk chalk drawing in Portland, Oregon, shows the circle as a conic section.

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MAA Found Math for the Week of May 21, 2012

nobody@flickr.com (MAA Found Math) — Tue, 22 May 2012 12:42:36 -0700

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MAA Found Math: A geometric arch assembled by participants at the Museum of Mathematics Booth at the 2012 USA Science & Engineering Festival in Washington, D.C.

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MAA Found Math for the Week of May 14, 2012

nobody@flickr.com (MAA Found Math) — Mon, 14 May 2012 09:01:50 -0700

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MAA Found Math: Japheth Wood writes, "Here's some math I found in the NYC subway, in the Franklin Avenue subway station (on the C train in Brooklyn). It appears to be a re-tiling of the wall in a pattern that suggests the distributive law, (2 8)×(4 11) = 2×4 2×11 8×4 8×11."

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MAA Found Math for the Week of May 7, 2012

nobody@flickr.com (MAA Found Math) — Mon, 07 May 2012 06:02:19 -0700

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MAA Found Math: A Triply Twisted Deltoid Torus on display in "The Mathematical Petting Zoo" at the Mathematical Association of America's Booth at the 2012 USA Science & Engineering Festival in Washington, D.C.

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MAA Found Math for the Week of April 23, 2012

nobody@flickr.com (MAA Found Math) — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 07:20:24 -0700

MAA Found Math posted a photo:

MAA Found Math: Origami hyperbolic parabaloids at MAA's booth during the 2010 USA Science and Engineering Festival on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

Stop by the MAA booth (#730) at the 2012 USA Science & Engineering Festival Expo this weekend, April 28 - 29, 2012. The exhibit features A Mathematical Petting Zoo, a slideshow of MAA Found Math, our member-generated gallery of photos of math in the real world, and "Are You Smarter Than an 8th Grader in Math?", an interactive quiz based on the AMC 8 contest. Don't forget to pick up a copy of our Field Guide to Math on the National Mall.