2 papers
math.CO2022
A More Malicious Maitre d'
Reed Acton, T. Kyle Petersen, Blake Shirman +1
In this paper we study the problem of the Malicious Maitre d', as described in Peter Winkler's book Mathematical Puzzles: A Connoisseur's Collection. This problem, attributed to co…
physics.ed-ph2021
What's math got to do with patterns in fish?
Blake Shirman, Alexandria Volkening
When you think of fish, what comes to mind? Maybe you think of pet goldfish, movie characters like Dory or Nemo, or trout in a local river. One of the things that all of these fish…