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Exercise: Internet Scavenger Hunt
Use the Internet to find the following items, and record the
URLs where you found them.
(For foreign students, part 0 is to find an online dictionary
that defines "scavenger hunt".)
- The World-Wide Web home page of the town where you were born. If
there is no such home page, find the home page of a city as
close as possible to the place where you were born.
- The title of a mathematical publication by a person (not
a member of your immediate family) whose name differs from
yours by as few letters as possible. For example, "Harold
Boas" and "Harald Bohr" differ in three letters.
- A picture of the Borromean rings.
- The probabilities of the different hands in standard
five-card poker.
- A java applet that graphs partial sums of Fourier
series.
- A large number of decimal places of the number pi.
- A picture of the Nephroid of Freeth.
- A biography of the mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson.
- The home page of the most recent recipient of the
Chauvenet Prize.
- The title of Cathleen Morawetz's 1946 master's thesis. (This one is tricky!)
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