Contests/Discussions
This is an archive of all contests and discussions organized by the club. Typically, an interesting problem is posted periodically, and solutions are received over a period of 3 weeks. The best solutions are awarded and shared by the end of the month.
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01 Nov 2022
November - ODE to Joy
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Today, we explore the placid hymns of An ODE to Joy through those that run the continuous world …
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09 Aug 2022
August - Sequentially Arithmetic
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Today, we’re going to explore certain distributions of arithmetic sequences, and their connection with Riemann integrals.
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15 May 2022
May - Generating Oh,no!mials
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Today, we’re going to take a fun trip through something we all did as high school students - monomials, binomials, trinomials … polynomials!
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15 Apr 2022
April - To err
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“To err is human” - for no err is of whom but supreme? However, accepting our errors makes our convictions stronger and our ideas more robust; that is how science has progressed all this while …
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14 Mar 2022
March - Leaps and Bounds
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Today, I shall present you with some problems which will show you that the most fundamental knowledge of mathematics we hold is key to solving many complicated or non-intuitive ideas.
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16 Feb 2022
February - Progression
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Today, we’ll explore an idea that involves something that even a non-math person might have encountered: the Arithmetic Triangle a.k.a Pascal’s Triangle!
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01 Nov 2021
November - Amity
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Today, we shall be taking a break from rigorous mathematics and be looking at a form of chess, much simpler than what the professionals play. Instead of an 8×8 chessboard, we’ll take a 8×1 chessboard and take only three of each set of pieces, namely the King (K), the Rook (R) and the Knight (N).
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01 Sep 2021
September - Inception
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Today I come to you with some ideas that are fairly easy, yet provide some pretty insight into the wonderful universe of mathematics. These include two very popular functions one uses in algebra: the floor and the fractional part.