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Taffy, Trees, and Tangles
Neil J. Calkin, Eliza Gallagher, Ben Gobler
We study the relationship between three combinatorial objects -- a taffy pulling machine, the Calkin-Wilf tree of all fractions, and Conway's rational tangles. After introducing th…
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On the maximal spread of symmetric Bohemian matrices
Neil J. Calkin, Robert M. Corless, Laureano Gonzalez-Vega +2
Let A be a square matrix with real entries. The spread of A is defined as the maximum of the distances among the eigenvalues of A. Let denote the set of all …