• Inner Cover

     Steven L. Kleiman                        i  
  • Letter From The Editor

    Christopher Barney                        1
  • Word Problem on Hyperbolic Groups

    Darren C. Collins                        11
  • Continued Fractions

    Ben Cooke                                21
  • Reed--Muller Correcting Codes

    Chris Douglas                            27
  • Inner Product Spaces of the

    Homology Groups of Manifolds

    Edward Early                             37
  • On the Euler Characteristic

    Daniel Edelstein                         49
  • Polya's Principles

    Paul Grayson,                            57
  • Robotic motion Planning

    Jeff Henrikson                           69
  • Completeness and Total Boundedness

    of the Hausdorff Metric

    Benjamin Ho                              81
  • Further Exploration in Public Key Encryption

    Daniel P. Kamalic                        87
  • High-Speed Photography

    Melissa Kanemasu                         95  
  • Golay Codes

     George B. Kunin                        101
  • The Finite Difference Calculus and

    Applications to the Interpolation of Sequences

    Eric H. Kuo                             111
  • An Alternative Technique

    for Proving the Aztec Diamond Theorem

    and Other Applications

    Molly Maxwell                           123
  • A Mathematical Perspective on Gambling

    Zachary S. McGregor-Dorsey              133
  • Methods of Primality Testing

    Richard A. Monte                        143
  • The Random Walk For Dummies

    Kathy Paur                              149
  • The Fenchel--Nielsen Coordinates

    of Teichmuller Space

    Carolyn L. Phillips                     155
  • The Level-Set Method

     Eric Krevice Prebys                    165
  • The Genetic Algorithm in Computer Science

    Ashesh Shah                             171
  • Game Theory: Oligopolies

    Jeremy D. Sher                          179
  • How Real are the Real Numbers?

    Stacie Wu                               189
  • A Probabilistic Model of Set-Based Design

    Steven L. Kleiman and Glenn P. Tesler   195
  • Writing a Math Phase Two Paper