Remembering Richard Kenneth Guy: Games and Taking on Mountains This essay is dedicated to the memory of Richard K. Guy (1916-2020) whose life story and accomplishments display a variety of aspects of the complicated landscape of finding fulfilling work on the part of individuals, the concern of society with nourishingRead More →
Points, Lines, and Incidences To honor Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month, I will treat some remarkable developments concerning a basic intuitive idea in geometry concerning points and lines. … Joseph Malkevitch York College (CUNY Introduction When people think about mathematics they think of numbers and shapes. Numbers covers the interestRead More →
Joe Malkevitch’s Column Archive Here are Joe Malkevitch’s older Feature Columns. Joe’s newest columns may be found here. December 2020 – Pseudonyms in Mathematics (History of Mathematics) August 2020 – Remembering Richard Kenneth Guy: Games and Taking on Mountains (Game Theory and Social Choice, Discrete Math and Combinatorics) April 2020Read More →