28th January 2017

Magic Rectangles - Joel Haddley

You may already be familiar with Magic Squares from previous Maths Club meetings or your own mathematical exploring. In this session, we will look at generalising these to Magic Rectangles and investigate what happens.

Needle in the World Wide Haystack - Anna Pratoussevitch

We will talk about the world wide web, search engines and the mathematics behind Google's search algorithms.

For further reading on this topic, see:

http://www.ams.org/samplings/feature-column/fcarc-pagerank (an AMS feature column "How Google Finds Your Needle in the Web's Haystack" by David Austin)

http://www.math.cornell.edu/~mec/Winter2009/RalucaRemus/ (a series of talks from a maths club at Cornell University)