The Berkeley Math Circle

Handouts 1999-2000 (Archives)

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.

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Circle Archives

Instructor Topic Notes
Zvezdelina Stankova Theorems in Plane Geometry. Part I (PDF)
Zvezdelina Stankova Theorems in Plane Geometry. Part II Same handout as in Part I. (PDF)
Mira Bernstein "A Few Words About Proofs" (PDF)
Zvezdelina Stankova "Geometric Puzzles and Constructions" Delivered on Sept. 29 1999 at the Bay Area Mathematical Adventure at Santa Clara University. (PDF)
Paul Zeitz Combinatorics, Part I (PDF)
Paul Zeitz Combinatorics, Part II Same handout as in Part I. (PDF)
Tom Davis "Induction" (PDF)
Bjorn Poonen "Elliptic Curves" (PDF)
Tom Davis "Matrices and Applications" (PDF)
Mira Bernstein "Proofs and Problems" (PDF)
Bjorn Poonen "Inequalities" (PDF)
Gabriel Carroll "Polynomials" (PDF)
Vera Serganova "Optimization" (PDF)
Tom Rike "Inequalities and Trigonometry" (Revised) (PDF)
Ted Alper "Functional Equations and Recurrence, Part I" (PDF)
Eugene Mukhin "Quantum Numbers" (PDF)
Tom Rike "Mass Point Geometry" (PDFPS)
Tom Rike "Archimedes and the Arbelos" (Revised) (PDF)
Tom Rike "Addenda to Archimedes" (PDF)
Paul Zeitz "Problem Solving for Math Olympiads--Beginners" (PDF)
Paul Zeitz Answers for the "Problem Solving for Math Olympiads--Beginners" (PDF)
Gabriel Carroll "Combinatorial Number Theory" (PDF)
Tom Davis "Mathematical Biology" (PDF)
Joe Buhler "Diophantine Equations" (PDF)
Zvezdelina Stankova "Complex Numbers in Geometry, Part I" (PDF)
Zvezdelina Stankova "Complex Numbers in Geometry, Part II" Same handout as in Part I. (PDF)
Zvezdelina Stankova BAMO 2000 Practice Problems I (PDF)
Zvezdelina Stankova BAMO 2000 Practice Problems II (PDF)