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The Amazing Paraboloid (double
refraction and energy redistribution),
M. L Feingold, lall Aug94, p40
(At the Blackboard)
The American Mathematics Correspondence
School (I. M. Gelfand's
project for high school students),
Nov/Dec93, p5 I (Happenings)
The Annual Przzle Party (report
and samples), Anatoly Kaiinin,
lillArg94, p56 (Toy Store)
Anticipating Future Things (science
education in2044), Bill G. Aldridge,
lrllAugg4, p2 (Publisher's Page)
Backtracking to Faraday's Law
(threshold voltage in electrolysis),
Alexey Byalko, lanfFebg4, p20 (Feature)
The Beetle and the Rubbet Band
(mind-stretching problem), Alexander
A. Pukhov, Marf Apr94, p42 (At
the Blackboard)
The Bounding Main (physics of sea
swells ), Ivan Voroby ov , May f lan9 4 ,
p20 (Feature)
Bushels of Pairs (graphical primer),
Andrey N. Kolmogorov, Nov/Dec93,
p4 (Feature)
The Case of the Mythical Beast
{Ho1mes and the Helmholtz resonator),
Roman Vinokur, Nov/Dec93,
p10 (Feature)
Chopping Up Pick's Theorem (triangulation
and polygonal partition),
Nikoiay Vasilyev, lanlFeb94, p49
(At the Blackboard)
Constructing Triangles from Three
Given Parts (185 problems), George
Berzsenyi, l:uJlAug94, p30 (Math Investigations)
Cooled by the Light (photonic refrigeration),
I. Vorobyov, Sep/Oct93,
p20 (Feature)
Derivatives in Algebraic Problems
(counting roots), Alexander Zvonkin,
Nov/Dec93, p2B (At the Blackboard)
Drops for the Ctops (limits on the
size of droplets), Yuly Bruk and
Albert Stasenko, Marf Apr94, plO
(Feature)
Electricity in the Air (surface charge
density of the Earthl, Arthur
Eisenkraft and Larry D. Kirkpatrick,
Nov/Dec93, p46 (Physics Contest)
Endless Self-description (Hilgemeier's
"likeness sequence" ),
George Berzsenyi, Sep/Oct93, p17
(Math Investigations)
Extremists of Every Stripe (investing
in Russia's future), Bili G. Aldridge,
Marf Apr94, p2 (Publisher's Page)
The Fifth International Olympiad in
Informatics (problems and empanadas),
DonaldT. Piele, Marf Apr94,
p46 (Happenings)
Focusing on the Fleet (Archimedean
victory at seal, Sergey Semenchinsky,
Sep/Oct93, p2B (In the Lab)
Follow the Bouncing Buckyball
(fullerenes and other carbonic architecture),
Sergey Tikhodeyev, Mayl
lun94, pB (Feature)
For the Love of Her Subiect (interview
with Marina Ratner), |ulia
Angwin, lul l Augg 4, p44 (Profile)
The Fourth State of Matter (plasma
physics), Alexander Kingsep, Sep/
Oct93, p4 (Feature)
The Friction and Pressure of Skating
(glaciers and the Carnot theorem),
Alexey Chernouts an, lulf Aug9 4,
p25 (At the Blackboard)
From a Snowy Swiss Summit to the
Apex of Geometry (biographical
sketch of |acob Steiner), I. M.
Yaglom, Nov/Dec93, p35 (Looking
Back)
Fun with Liquid Nitrogen (latent
heat of vaporization), Arthur Eisenkraft
and LarryD. Kirkpatrick,Marf .
Apr94, p3B (Physics Contest)
Geometric Summation (infinite algebraic
tilings), M. Apresyan, Mayf
l:un94, p30 (In Your Head)
The Good Old Pythagorean Theorem
(proofs and generalizations), V.
N. Berezin, l an lE ebg 4, p24 lF eaturel
Happy Birthday, Uncle Paul! (Erdos
turns eighty-one), George Berzsenyi,
Mayllrng4, p28 (Math Investigations)
Home on the Range (functional
primer), Andrey N. Kolmogorov,
Sep/Oct93, p10 (Feature)
Horseflies and Flying Horses (matters
of scale in the animal world), A.
Zherdev, Mayll:ung4, p32 (Kaleidoscope)
An Ideal Gas Gets Real (and relativity
visits electromagnetic induction),
Albert Stasenko and Alexey
Chernoutsan, Sep/Oct93, p42 {At
the Blackboard)
Keeping Track of Points (trajectories,
tracks, and displacements), Sep/
Oct93, p32 (Kaleidoscope)
Laser Levitation (lifting with light),
Arthur Eisenkraft ar,d Larry D.
Kirkpatrick, May fl:unr94, p3B (Physics
Contest)
Late Light from Mercury lgravitational
refraction), Yakov Smorodinsky,
Nov/Dec93, p40 (In the Lab)
Light at the End of the Tunnel (invariants
and monovariants), Dmitry
Fomin and Lev Kurlyandchik, Mar/
Apr94, p15 (Feature)
A Little Lens Talk ("paper" ar.d
"teal" lenses), Aiexander Zilber
p35 (At the Black-
man, May flun94,
board)
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