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User:David Eppstein has a collection of his many DYK items. Kiefer.Wolfowitz 13:55, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
... that, according to the pizza theorem, a circularpizza that is sliced off-center into eight equal-angled wedges can still be divided equally between two people? (09.12)
... that Martin Demaine founded the first one-man art glassstudio in Canada and home-schooled his son Erik to become MIT's youngest ever professor despite not having a college degree himself? (09.09)
... that an equitable coloring of a graph(pictured), in which the numbers of vertices of each color are as nearly equal as possible, may require far more colors than a graph coloring without this constraint? (09.03)
... that there are 115,200 solutions to the ménage problem of permuting six couples at a twelve-person table so that men and women alternate and are seated away from their partners? (09.01)
...that Carl Størmer, "the acknowledged authority" on aurorae and the motion of charged particles in the magnetosphere, began his academic career inventing formulae for π? (08.03)
...that in graph theory, a pseudoforest can contain trees and pseudotrees, but cannot contain any butterflies, diamonds, handcuffs, or bicycles? (07.10)
...that a cyclic cellular automaton(pictured) is a system of simple mathematical rules that can generate complex patterns mixing random chaos, blocks of color, and spirals? (07.04)
... that Henry Mann's 1949 book, Analysis and design of experiments, filled mathematical gaps in the statistical writings of Ronald A. Fisher? 1 February 2011 1.2k Visitors
Real part of the modular discriminant on the unit circle
Absolute value of the gamma function on the complex plane
The vertex configuration of a tetrahedral-octahedral honeycomb
13 weak orders
View of regular hyperbolic tiling cantellated {3,7}
Cantellated 24-cell stereo projection wireframe
Bigyrate diminished rhombicosidodecahedron (Johnson solid #79)
Stella octangula / Star Tetrahedron
Sixth stellation of the icosahedron
