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Jumping straight to the model might make us miss something interesting... What Makes a Plot Interesting? Prediction Edition Sara Stoudt Bucknell University How do you go about finding something "interesting" in a new dataset? I recommend t…
This is not obviously a difficult problem. But in over two hundred years since Carl Friedrich Gauss first posed it, there has been remarkably little progress... Another Look at Circles and Squares Bill Casselman University of British Colum…
My first encounter with the Shapley value came in the unlikely context of video game design... The Shapley Value, or How to Split a Bill in $n!$ Easy Steps Anil Venkatesh Adelphi University Introduction More often than not, a happy hour wi…
Every ballot quietly asks a question, and depending on the voting method we use we choose to listen to or discard little bits of the answer... The Story Your Ballot Doesn't Tell: The Mathematics of Single-Winner Elections Anna Haensch Univ…
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Though the chart starts out in alphabetical order, there's a break in the pattern that offers a clue... Puzzling Like the Seventeenth Century Ursula Whitcher Mathematical Reviews (AMS) The following chart is taken from the second edition o…
You could pick up the torus and rotate it horizontally, as though you are taking the lid off of a jar of peanut butter... How to Untwist Your Fractions Diana Davis Phillips Exeter Academy A string around a bagel Here's the problem: your ba…
Every time some mathematical question is answered, it generates new mathematical issues to think about.... Does Mathematics Progress? Joe Malkevitch York College (CUNY) Introduction With the beginning of a New Year—2026 in one system of co…
Could we possibly gain more insight by trading away even more information? Information, Insight, and the Problem With Parameters Anil Venkatesh Adelphi University Introduction I have two data sets for us to consider. Both consist of observ…
This fall I woke up to a surprise comprehensive exam, with my toddler as the examiner, starting with the demand for a nonconvex regular [simple] polygon. It was 4:30 am. I had not yet had coffee. Everything I Need to Know About Polygons I …
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