THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL
MONTHLY
Volume 106, Number 10
Jonathan M. Borwein Robert M. Corless Thomas W. Tucker Steven G. Krantz Helene Shapiro Francis Edward Su
December 1999
Emerging Tools for Experimental Mathematics 889 Reform, Tradition, and Synthesis 910 You Don't Need a Weatherman to Know 915 Which Way the Wind Blows
The Weyr Characteristic 919 Rental Harmony: Sperner's Lemma in 930 Fair Division
NOTES Leonid G. Hanin David Callan Istvan Kovacs Daniel S. Silver Susan G, Williams Paul Yiu David N. Yetter UNSOLVED PROBLEMS Richard Nowakowski
PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS REVIEWS Edward Aboufadel Matthew Boelkins Steven Schlicker
Daniel Henry Gottlieb INDEX TO VOLUME 106
Which Tanks Empty Faster?
Two Uniformly Distributed Parameters Defining Catalan Numbers
Determinants of Commuting-Block Matrices
Mixtilinear Incircles
The Area of the Medial Parallelogram of a Tetrahedron
Monthly Unsolved Problems, 1969-1999
Wavelets: A Primer. By Christian Blatter Wavelets in a Box. By Charles K. Chui, Andrew K. Chan, and C. Steve Liu A Primer on Wavelets for Scientists and Engineers. By James S. Walker
Wavelet Analysis: The Scalable Structure of Information. By Howard L. Resnikoff and Raymond 0. Wells, Jr.
Poincare and the Three Body Problem.
By June Barrow-Green
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