| Welcome to the BMC Archives. This section of the site was created to archive the session handouts and Monthly Contests from the Circle since 1998. To navigate this page, simply select the desired year you wish to view under either Session Handouts or Monthly Contests. The info for that year will be displayed underneath your selection.
Session Handouts:
Monthly Contests:
Session Handouts 2001-2002:
| Instructor |
Topic |
Notes |
| Mira Bernstein |
"A Few Words About Proofs" |
(PDF, PS, HTML) |
| Zvezdelina Stankova |
Inversion in the Plane, Part I |
(Abstract)
(PDF, PS) |
| Zvezdelina Stankova |
Inversion in the Plane, Part II |
(Abstract)
(PDF, PS, HTML) |
| Bjorn Poonen |
Elliptic Curves |
(PDF, PS, HTML) |
| Zvezdelina Stankova |
Inversion, Part III |
(Abstract) |
| Dmitry Fuchs |
Combinatorial Identities - Euler, Gauss, Jacobi, McDonald and Others |
|
| Tom Davis |
Projective Geometry |
(Abstract)
(PDF, PS) |
| Paul Zeitz and Mira Bernstein |
Colored Hats and Hamming Codes |
(Abstract) |
| Austin Shapiro |
Fibonacci Numbers |
(JPG) |
| Bjorn Poonen |
Inequalities |
(PDF, PS, HTML) |
| Kiran Kedlaya |
Fixed Points and Fair Divisions |
(Abstract)
(PDF, PS, HTML) |
| Ted Alper |
Induction |
(Abstract)
(PDF, PS, HTML) |
| Tom Davis |
Polya's Counting Theory |
(Abstract)
(PDF, PS, HTML) |
| Joe Buhler |
Games and Graphs |
(Abstract)
(Gameboards: Bridgit, Chess, Chess 7x7, Hex 9x9, Hex 8x8) |
| Dmitry Fuchs |
Evolutes and Involutes |
|
| Inna Zakharevich |
Hilbert's Third Problem |
(PS) |
| Tom Rike |
Maxima and Minima Problems WITHOUT Calculus |
(Abstract)
(PDF, PS, HTML) |
| Tom Davis |
Homogeneous Coordinates |
(Abstract)
(PDF, PS) |
| Serkan Hosten |
Convex Polytopes |
|
| Paul Zeitz |
Journey to the Center of Pascal's Triangle |
|
| Paul Zeitz |
Journey to the Center of Pascal's Triangle
BAMO practice (general) |
|
| Maksim Maydanskiy |
BAMO practice (general) |
(DOC) |
| Zvezdelina Stankova |
BAMO practice (general) |
(PDF, PS, HTML) |
| Neil Herriot and Inna Zakharevich |
BAMO Aftermath |
|
| Andrew Dudzik |
Generating Functions |
|
| Tom Rike |
Infinite Series |
(Abstract)
(PDF, PS, HTML) |
| Carl Mautner and Maksim Maydanskiy |
Theorems of Pappus and Pascal and Cubic Curves |
(Abstract)
(DOC) |
| Alexander Givental |
Regular Polyhedra in 2D and 3D |
|
| Kiran Kedlaya |
"This Talk Is Under Construction" |
A paper mentioned in the talk can be found here. (Abstract)
(PDF,
(PS, HTML) |
| Kiran Kedlaya |
USAMO Practice Session |
(PDF, PS, HTML) |
| Tom Rike |
An Intriguing Geometry Problem |
(Abstract)
(PDF, PS, HTML, Supplemental Figures) |
|
