Math Minds,

 

Meeting:

 

          There will be a meeting this Wednesday, Sept.21, at 2:45pm in Kupfrian 204.  Elections will be held, so start preparing speeches, plan what to run for, hand out bribes, etc.  Also,. we will discuss the events that the Pi-Landers will be doing in this semester.  As always, a math joke and clever math trick will be presented. 

 

 

Elections:

 

If you wish, you can run for the following positions. (More may be added...depending on the interest level).  For those of you in the honors college, it is a good idea for you to run.  Being an officer in a club counts as service credit.

 

The standard ones:

 

President

Vice President

Secretary

Treasurer

 

The other, equally important ones:

 

Webmaster

Editor in chief of the Pi-Lander Gazette

Dean of Public Relations (distribute flyers, advertise in the vector)

Office Manager (we have an office in the student center)

Face-off organizer (to be discussed during the next club meeting)

 

 

Math Joke:

 

A Nobel prize winning scientist encounters a deep and perplexing problem in his research.  He determines that he needs an outsider's insight.  Thus, he interviews a Physicist, an a Engineer, a Computer Scientist, a Biologist, an Economist, and a Mathematician (in this order). 

 

After the first four interviews, he then interviews the Economist.  The Economist inquires as to how the other interviews went.

 

He replies,

 

"It became apparent in talking with the Physicist that we'd stumble upon a difficult integral.  He suggested that only a mathematician could help solve the integral.  In speaking to the engineer, we determined that we could avoid the integral by instead using a difficult differential equation.  He suggested that only a mathematician could solve the equation.  The computer scientist said he could solve the problem numerically, but that he would have to rely on a mathematician to develop the numerical scheme.  The biologist started talking and within minutes the problem was 10 times more complicated than it was at the start.  He suggested that maybe a mathematician could reduce some of the compiexities."

 

The Economist then answered, "Well, the solution is obvious! Hire me and I will tell you my best economic policy--to hire the Mathematician."

 

 

Math Site:

 

You may need to copy and paste this website in two pieces.  It's the first chapter of the hilarious, highly entertaining biography Paul Erdos--the mathematician who by the age of 3 could multiply 3 digit numbers in hs head and who later became the second most prolific scientist of all time (he wrote about 1475 papers total). 

 

http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0786884061/ref=sib_dp_bod_ex/103-5475160-5266207?%5Fencoding=UTF8&p=S005#reader-page

 

 

Xaire, (goodbye in Ancient Greek)