For Our
Mathematical
Pleasure
Jim Henle
Notes, Comments, and Answers
to my Intelligencer columns
Send queries and more comments to
pleasingmath@gmail.com
Fall 2022:
The Pleasures of Friends
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for urls in the column.
Summer 2022:
The Mathematical Art of Change-Ringing
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for urls in the column.
Spring 2022:
Square Dance from a Mathematical Perspective
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for urls in the column.
Winter 2021:
Changing the Rules: The Legacy of Robert Abbott
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Fall 2021:
Mathematics that Dances
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for urls in the column.
Summer 2021:
The Artist
Spring 2021:
Art for One
Winter 2020:
Math for grades 1 to 5 should be Art
Fall 2020:
Romantic Mathematical Art (Part II)
Summer 2020:
Romantic Mathematical Art (Part I)
Spring 2020:
A Flowering of Mathematical Art
Winter 2019:
Numeralogy
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here
for a numeration system with animated addition and multiplication.
Fall 2019:
A Mathematical Art
Summer 2019:
Mad Math
There was a nice article on Mad Math in the local paper,
The Hampshire Gazette.
You can read it
here.
Spring 2019:
Mathematical Treasures from Sid Sackson
This column was anthologized in
The Best Writing on Mathematics 2020,
Mircea Pitici, editor, Princeton University Press, 2020.
Winter 2018:
Baseball Retrograde Analysis
There are some errors in the column. You can download a corrected version
here.
And you can download a scorecard
here.
It's useful in solving and creating puzzles.
Fall 2018:
Puzzle Ninja Ninja
Summer 2018:
The Entertainer
Spring 2018:
Meaning to Please