The Mathematical Association of America asked its Facebook fans to send in pictures of their mathematical pumpkins. They answered the call admirably!
You can see the pictures at the MAA’s Facebook page. I particularly like the honeycomb one.
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Interesting Esoterica Spooky Halloween Edition
Today is Halloween, the day when skeletons and spooks and statisticians ((While The Aperiodical is an equal opportunity employer, the author maintains a legitimate fear of “approximate counting”)) roam the earth to wreak their awful revenge on the innocent.
Maths has a habit of borrowing peculiar words from the vernacular, so I thought I’d go on a witch-hunt in the arXiv and see what bone-chilling titles I could find. Here’s what fell into my genuine recreation Ghostbusters Ghost Trap:
Limiting Risk by Turning Manifest Phantoms into Evil Zombies
On the effect of ghost force in the quasicontinuum method: dynamic problems in one dimension
Taming the Ghost in Pais-Uhlenbeck Oscillator
Recovering Missing Slices of the Discrete Fourier Transform using Ghosts
An algebraic approach to laying a ghost to rest
Conclusion: mathematicians ain’t afraid of no ghosts.
Have you got any blood-curdling paper titles to share around the campfire?