Monthly Archives: May 2012

The latest issue of The College Mathematics Journal contains a good article by Donald Teets, titled “Push-To Telescope Mathematics” (see references below), describing the alignment process used by computerized telescopes to determine their orientation, and thus how to point to … Continue reading →

This is a follow-up to the previous post, which presented a situation in the second book of the Hunger Games trilogy as a probability problem.  The problem may be re-stated as follows: when balls are randomly distributed into initially empty … Continue reading →