Math Survey

The Official Publication of the Stuyvesant Math and Computer Science Department since 1927

Quadratic Number Theory
By Tanvir Ahmed

Catalan Numbers
By Ivy Zhu

Primitive Roots
By Patrick Was

Lucas Numbers
By Elizabeth Burnell

Soddy Circles, Inversion, and Descartes’ Circle Theorem
By Ethan Sharma

P-Adic Numbers
By Tanvir Ahmed

Galois and Quintic Formula
By Patrick Was

Magic Squares
By Ivy Zhu

Cool Things You Need to Know About Triangles
By Qinwen Zheng

Circles and Quadrilaterals
By Patrick Was

Cross Sections of Real Life: Conics
By Ethan Sharma

Newton’s Sums
By David Jiang

Numbers Are Based
By Elijah White

How Often Do Powers of 2 Start with a 1?
By Daniel Potievsky

Numbers on a Clothesline
By Aditya Pahuja

Shapiro’s Inequality: A Remarkable Use of Convex Functions
By Daniel Potievsky

Representations of Numbers in Various Bases
By Leonna Wang

Matroid Intersection: Generalizing Problems in Combinatorial Optimization
By Shuichi Kinoshita

The Power of Infinity: Cantor, Cohen, and Infinite Sets
By Daniel Potievsky

Barycentric Coordinates: Trading a Point of Origin for a Triangle
By Aditya Pahuja

The Graph Theory Behind Games: The Seven Bridges of Konigsberg and the Game of Hex
By Shaon Anwar

The Facility Location Problem
By Yuhao “Ben” Pan

Banach-Tarski and the Paradox of Infinite Cloning
By Lamisa Aziz

Exploring Catalan Numbers and Their Strikingly Distinct Applications
By Krish Bhandari

Analyzing beta-glucuronidase expression in gut microbial populations of MS patients and healthy controls: An intersection of immunology and computer science
By Amanda Zhong, Arthur Liang

NOVID: Exploring the Network Theory Used to Track the Spread of COVID-19
By Richard Wang

Fermat's Little Theorem and Cryptography
By John Gupta-She

Diophantine Equations: The Answer Really Is 42
By Josephine Lee

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