Monks, blobs and common knowledge

Article Abstract:

Common knowledge puzzles come in many forms and these games often become more complicated as the number of participants or variables increase. One such game is where monks do not know that they have a blob on their heads but sees blobs on the others heads.

Column, Appreciation, Mathematical recreations, Educational games, Games in mathematics education, Mathematics education, Puzzles

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Double bubble, toil and trouble

Article Abstract:

Bubbles offer near perfect models of planes and their interaction with one another. These models could then be used to reconstruct mathematical equations to derive the space occupied by these bubbles as these form characteristic angles.

Models, Evaluation, Mathematical models, Surfaces, Surfaces (Materials), Bubbles

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The synchronicity of firefly fishing

Article Abstract:

Firefly flashing is observed to be synchronized. This behavior as explained by mathematics is an oscillator demonstrated by fireflies in periodic rhythms and is created by a mechanism called integrate-and-fire.

Research, Behavior, Harmonic oscillators, Fireflies

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