"The difference between a student of mathematics and a regular student is obvious : the former is the brand name and the latter is a sorry look-alike."
"Conquering the world, one competition at a time."
Prize Winning Major-Mania Material
Officers:
Club Advisor
Dr. Roy Goodman
President
Sir Kunj Patel
Secretary
Jon Lansey
Treasurer
Jeanina Perez
Newsletter 19
Math Minds,
Event of April 2, 2005:
The NJIT Pi-Landers competed in the 2005 Garden State
Competition. The
participants were Mani Rana, Matt Malej, and Kunj Patel. Dr. Goodman
was also
present as the team advisor. The event was loads of fun, but the
winner
turned out to be Princeton. However, none of us returned empty-handed
because
all four of us won mathematics books.
Meeting:
There will not be a meeting tomorrow, April 4th. Also, there will
not be a
meeting on April 25th. This is to allow math club members to catch up
on
their honors colloquia (myself included).
The next meeting will be on April 18th at 11:30am in Kupfr. 103. We
will be
preparing for math week.
Math Week:
We are expecting to hold an integral Bee for all
students of NJIT and
Rutgers at 4:00pm on April 27th, immediately after the Pi Mu Epsilon
induction
meeting. The room has not been decided yet. Check web.njit.edu/~mathclub
for
more announcements.
Weekly Math Joke:
(Contributed by Dr. Bukiet)
This joke has nothing to do with mathematics, but it was too funny to pass
up.
Four freshman engineering students were
sitting around one day arguing
about who might've designed the human body. The first one said, "It
must've been a mechanical engineer. The human body has all those
levers
and pivots and stuff - a mechanical engineer must have designed all that."
The second one said, "No, it had to have been an electrical engineer.
The complex way the nerves are wired up to the brain must have been
designed by an electrical engineer." Then the third one said, "No,
it must have been a chemical engineer. The nerve impulses all travel
through chemical release and chemical receptors.'' Finally, the fourth
one said, ``No, it was a civil engineer. Who else would run a waste
water
line through a recreational area?"
Pi-Landers Magazine:
Hi. Time is running out to publish a math magazine this
semester (it's
going to actually be more of a newspaper). Dr. Goodman suggested that
it
include Pi Mu Epsilon nominations and the many activities of the math club.
We still need interesting articles and a design for it. The first
person to
design the magazine will be named the Editor in Chief--which would probably
look impressive on a resume.
Math Site of the Week:
On Memory, mental arithmetic and mathematics
http://www-groups.dcs.st-
and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Mental_arithmetic.html#s15
(Sorry, it doesn't all fit into one line).
Adios,
--Kunj