{"id":520,"date":"2024-01-30T10:20:18","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T15:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.citadel.edu\/provost-notes\/?p=520"},"modified":"2024-02-01T14:03:37","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T19:03:37","slug":"math-majors-tackle-difficult-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.citadel.edu\/provost-notes\/2024\/01\/math-majors-tackle-difficult-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Math majors tackle difficult problems"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-math-majors-tackle-difficult-problems\">Math majors tackle difficult problems<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.citadel.edu\/provost-notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/179\/Math_WilliamBoyd.jpg\" style=\"width: 150px;\" class=\"alignleft\"><\/p><p>Last semester Cadets Ernest James and William Boyd received recognition by Math Magazine for solving a problem posted by the magazine on good and bad sequences. The two math majors presented their findings at the Carolina Math Seminar hosted by Coastal Carolina University. \u201cThe conference really gave me a feel for how math gets done,\u201d said Boyd, a junior from New Hampshire. \u201cIt gave me an idea of how to prove things when the answer is not in a book.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.citadel.edu\/provost-notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/179\/Math_Antara-Mukherjee.jpg\" style=\"width: 150px;\" class=\"alignleft\"><\/p><p>James and Boyd solved this problem under the guidance of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citadel.edu\/mathsci\/faculty-staff\/dr-antara-mukherjee-ph-d\/\">Associate Professor of Mathematics and Interim Department Head Antara Mukherjee<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last semester Cadets Ernest James and William Boyd received recognition by Math Magazine for solving a problem posted by the magazine on good and bad sequences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":612,"featured_media":545,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-february-2024"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.0 (Yoast SEO v28.0) - 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