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Toward The End Of The Last Wave: The Montana State Constitution At Fifty, Robert F. Williams

Montana Law Review

No abstract provided.

Montana's Basic Necessities Clause And The Right To Earn A Living, Anthony B. Sanders

Montana Law Review

No abstract provided.

A Sargasso Sea: Montana's Statutory Double Jeopardy Protections In The Aftermath Of State V. Valenzuela, Callie Woody

Montana Law Review

No abstract provided.

Montana Kaimin, April 13, 2023, Students Of The University Of Montana, Missoula

Montana Kaimin, 1898-present

Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula.

Sb01-22/23 Resolution Encouraging Merit Increases For Staff With Addendum, Trey Magnuson

University of Montana Staff Senate Resolutions

Staff Senate advocated for staff to receive merit increases for exemplary work, which meets certain standards of quality or consistency as documented in performance reviews, and for there to be a shift in the performance review cycle to align with UM’s annual budget planning cycle so that departments can plan for these increases.

Documents From The April 12, 2023 Meeting Of The University Of Montana Staff Senate, University Of Montana--Missoula. Staff Senate

University of Montana Staff Senate Meeting Minutes

Agenda and meeting minutes from the April 12,2023 meeting of the University of Montana Staff Senate. The following resolutions were discussed at the meeting:

SB01-22_23: Resolution Encouraging Merit Increases

https://scholarworks.umt.edu/staffsenate_resolutions/1/

SB02 - 22_23Resolution Encouraging Effective Employee Performance Review Practices

https://scholarworks.umt.edu/staffsenate_resolutions/3

Gli Weekly, April 11, 2023, Franke Global Leadership Initiative

GLI Weekly

GLI Coffee Talk: Culture & Politics -- Medical Waste Day -- Dean Stone Lecture 2023: "What I Learned While Covering President Trump" with David Fahrenthold -- President's Lecture Series: "The Betrayal of Loyalty: From Tiananmen to Hong Kong" with Dr. Rowena He -- Screening of the Ken Burns Documentary: "Hiding in Plain Sight: Youth Mental Illness" -- Montana World Affairs Council Spring Speaker Series

Ctr. For Biological Diversity V. United States Fish & Wildlife Serv., Ali Stapleton

Public Land & Resources Law Review

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the District Court of Arizona’s decision to deny a proposed mining plan becuase the operations exceeded the boundaries of a valid mining claim. The issue the court addressed is whether a permanent occupancy of waste rock and tailings on land, absent the discovery of valuable minerals, is a reasonable use related to mining activities. The Ninth Circuit decision effectively prevented mining companies from amending the 1872 Mining Law on the administrative record. Motions for a rehearing and a rehearing en banc were denied.

Montana Kaimin, April 6, 2023, Students Of The University Of Montana, Missoula

Montana Kaimin, 1898-present

Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula.

Gli Weekly, April 4, 2023, Franke Global Leadership Initiative

GLI Weekly

-- Eco-Emotion Event Series -- GLI Coffee Talk: Culture & Politics -- Mansfield Library Panel and Traveling Exhibit: "Sorting Out Race: A Panel on Racial Stereotypes and Thrift Store Objects" -- Social Media Intern -- GLI Blog Feature: Amelia Hawes, Denmark

Storied Numbers A Review Of Alex Bellos’S Grapes Of Math: How Life Reflects Numbers And Numbers Reflect Life, John Bragelman

The Mathematics Enthusiast

Bellos’s (2010) Grapes of Math is not a book about the history of mathematics, although he includes maths histories. It is not a math textbook, although he leads the reader through a variety of mathematical concepts. It does not follow the life of a great mathematician, scientist, or philosopher, although they make their presence known throughout the book. Rather, Grapes of Math it lies at the intersection of these concepts. It is a book of stories, stories of mathematical ideas and the cultures that informed their development. And Bellos is a gifted storyteller.

Putting Math In Its Place A Review Of Cathy O’Neil’S Weapons Of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality And Threatens Democracy, Nathalie Sinclair

The Mathematics Enthusiast

With its bright yellow cover and its ominous title, this book attracts attention. The subtitle, “How big data increases inequality and threatens democracy” signals very strongly that the “math” in question in the title is primarily that which relates to the statistical and computational means of collecting, analysing and using data. For some readers, the title might be surprising, because it challenges the typical understanding of mathematics as an objective and value-neutral discipline. Worse, it claims that mathematics is significantly involved in creating inequality and compromising democracy. If it is true, then the answer to the perennial student question, “when …

The Birth Of A Review Or (How Villani Both Reinforces And Challenges Our Beliefs About Mathematics) A Review Of Cédric Villani’S Birth Of A Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure, Manon Leblanc

The Mathematics Enthusiast

In the book Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure, Cédric Villani paints a portrait of himself, from the (dare I say) obsessed mathematician who works until the wee hours of the night, to the ordinary citizen, enjoying an impressive variety of music, to the slightly odd man sporting an ornamental spider daily. From Lyon to Paris, through the despair of not being able to eat quality cheese, Villani takes us on a journey, revisiting the path that led him to win the Fields Medal. He takes us back in time and punctuates his account with anecdotes or stories of …

Overcoming Misconceptions About Probability A Review Of David J. Hand’S The Improbability Principle, Keith Gallagher

The Mathematics Enthusiast

Have you ever struck up a conversation with a stranger in a coffee shop and been surprised to learn that you were born in the same week, but in different years? Or maybe you have that one annoying friend who always seems to win raffles and lotteries even though you never win anything, and you just can’t figure out how they always get so lucky? Or perhaps, just for fun, you visited a psychic one day, and you were shocked by how much they were able to tell you about yourself. In The Improbability Principle, David J. Hand explains …

Studying Flourishing And Non-Flourishing In Mathematics A Review Of Francis Su’S Mathematics For Human Flourishing With Reflections By Christopher Jackson, Ryan Banow, Nat Banting, Egan Chernoff

The Mathematics Enthusiast

Dr. Francis Su uses an autobiography (or a dual autobiography) to discuss an issue in mathematics: it is often non-flourishing. When crafting this Euler Book Prize winner, Su and his co-author, Christopher Jackson, drew on their own personal experiences to educate and inspire readers to want to do (and teach) mathematics.

Learning To Avoid Luck Traps In Contexts Of Uncertainty A Review Of Jeffrey Rosenthal’S Knock On Wood: Luck, Chance, And The Meaning Of Everything, Vincent Martin, Mathieu Thibault

The Mathematics Enthusiast

In the field of probability instruction, much has been written about the increasingly important role of uncertainty and probability in our everyday lives. This work similarly highlights the key role that probability plays in a growing number of professional areas.

(Re)Humanizing Mathematics With Story A Review Of Keith Devlin’S Finding Fibonacci: The Quest To Rediscover The Forgotten Mathematical Genius Who Changed The World, Cynthia Nicol

The Mathematics Enthusiast

Indigenous scholar Richard van Camp of the Dogrib Nation shares how “a great story reminds us of what it means to be human” (van Camp in Galloway, 2020). Keith Devlin’s book, Finding Fibonacci: The Quest to Rediscover the Forgotten Mathematical Genius Who Changed the World, does just that – reminding us what it means to be human, but in this case through mathematics. In Finding Fibonacci, Devlin shares his story and journey to learn more about mathematician Leonardo Pisano (Fibonacci) and Leonardo’s manuscript Liber Abbaci (Book of Calculation), one of the first manuscripts written on practical arithmetic in …

The Hocus Pocus Of Martin Gardner A Review Of Martin Gardner’S Undiluted Hocus-Pocus: The Autobiography Of Martin Gardner, Neil J. Hatfield

The Mathematics Enthusiast

I have always enjoyed games, especially when incorporated into the classroom. I can still remember the game my fifth-grade teachers had us play to explore colonizing a new world. One of the most impactful games I’ve played is SET®, which has become a go-to for mathematics teachers as a means for exploring geometry, combinatorics, probability, statistics, and vector spaces (Larson Quinn et al., 1999; Waddell Jr., 2017). I first learned the game in the seventh grade and continue to play the game today. How many sets do you see in Figure 1?

Friends Of The Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum, No. 41, University Of Montana--Missoula. Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum

Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum (UMZM) Newsletters

Bring on the Biodiversity Data -- Museum Studies Certificate Program Starting This Fall -- Passion for Parasites -- 2023 Graslie Curiosity Interns: Ivie Carvo and Luke Johnson -- Redefining Identification Tecniques of Prey Remains in Merlins (Falco Columbarius) -- Who's in the Museum -- Museum Memories -- From the Curator

Arithmetic: Craft Or Art? A Recursive (Re)View Of Paul Lockhart’S A Mathematician’S Lament And Arithmetic, Jennifer S. Thom

The Mathematics Enthusiast

Paul Lockhart is a former computer programmer, elementary teacher, research mathematician, university professor, and somewhat more recently a K-12 mathematics teacher and author. Lockhart’s first written composition appeared two decades ago in 2002. All of 25 pages, his essay A Mathematician's Lament began like this:

A musician wakes from a terrible nightmare. In this dream he finds himself in a society where music education has been made mandatory ... Educators, school systems, and the state are put in charge of this vital project. Studies are commissioned, committees are formed, and decisions are made—all without the advice or participation of a …

Things Behind Bayes’ Theorem A Review Of Sharon Bertsch Mcgrayne’S The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes' Theorem Allowed To Decipher The Enigma Code, To Pursue The Russian Submarines And To Emerge Triumphant From Two Centuries Of Controversy From A Statistics Education Perspective, Ernesto Sanchez, Nathalia Morgado, Eleazar Silvestre

The Mathematics Enthusiast

A feeling emerges from reading McGrayne’s book expressed as a paraphrase of a verse from Hamlet: There are more things behind Bayes’ theorem, Horatio, than dreamt of in your philosophy. The book tells a story of the birth and survival of an idea around which social enterprises, personal odysseys, and human passions are masterfully woven by the author. The book has 17 chapters distributed in five parts and two annexes. These parts reveal a narrative structure worthy of Propp: The hero of the story (Bayes’ theorem) is born and raised normally but rejected later. It is forced to act …

Encounters With “Love And Math” A Belated Review Of Edward Frenkel’S Love And Math: The Heart Of Hidden Reality, Rina Zazkis

The Mathematics Enthusiast

In “Love and Math” the author intertwines his personal experiences as a student of mathematics and as a research mathematician with an exposition of modern mathematics, focusing on its elegance and beauty. Much is said in previous reviews (e.g., Grosholz, 2015) of this New York Times bestseller and winner of the Euler Book Prize from the Mathematical Association of America. All praise the author for his fascinating narratives in which he reveals the joy of intellectual discovery and provides a passionate account of exciting ideas of modern mathematics. There is no need in repetition, so this review is rather personal. …

Juicy Nuggets With A Strong Core A Review Of Jordan Ellenberg’S How Not To Be Wrong: The Power Of Mathematical Thinking, Taras Gula

The Mathematics Enthusiast

How Not to Be Wrong is a wonderful and entertaining romp through a field of intriguing and thought-provoking anecdotes and social conundrums in which mathematical thinking and mathematics are revealed in all their messiness and power. While reading Jordan Ellenberg’s weave of stories for the first time, I found myself retelling them to as many individuals in my social circles as I could. Though the intent of the book is quite serious, [its goal is to show that mathematical thinking is accessible and useful to those who have not mastered complex mathematics, that mathematical thinking can lead to profound insights …

Mathematics Education (And Other) Perspectives A Review Of Nassim Taleb’S The Black Swan: The Impact Of The Highly Improbable, Gale Russell

The Mathematics Enthusiast

The biggest problem I have with reviewing The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Taleb, 2010) is deciding from what perspective to write. There are a number of lenses through which I considered this work in relation to mathematics education: the Associate Professor, always searching for new resources for mathematics education classes; the teacher, always looking for new messages and ways of speaking to students (including pre-service teachers) about what mathematics is, what purposes it serves, and what limitations it inherently carries; the learner-teacher, always looking for a greater depth of understanding of the mathematics we are charged …

Zero To Infinity A Review Of Charles Seife’S Zero: The Biography Of A Dangerous Idea, Douglas Mcdougall

The Mathematics Enthusiast

“Nil”, “Nunca”, “Nada”, “Nil”, “Nothing”, “Zero”. Sounds of a multilingual class of mathematics, perhaps. No, it is the sounds around the family table card game as we all declare the number of tricks that we would like to take in a card game called Wizard. The speaker is telling the scorekeeper that they would not like to take any tricks. They would like to take “zero” tricks as if they could gather the zero cards. We all know that we do not want any tricks and we do our best not to take any if we declare that we want …

Department Of Mathematical Sciences Newsletter, Spring 2023, University Of Montana--Missoula. Department Of Mathematical Sciences

Newsletters from the Department of Mathematical Sciences at UM

Nontraditional Math Majors / Elizabeth Gillaspy -- From Crayons to Co-Degree / Cory Palmer -- George F. Votruba 1934 - 2023 -- Notes from the Chair / John Bardsley -- GOALS 2022 at UM: Report on an International Workshop for Graduate Students / Patrick Kreitzberg -- Gloria Hewitt Featured on EvenQuads Card -- Jon Graham’s Other Job: Mathcounts Coach & Mentor / Matt Roscoe -- Would you like to try a Mathcounts Problem? -- Update on the Honor Roll of Donors -- Degree Recipients 2022-2023 -- Spring 2023 Scholarships & Awards -- Diana M. Thomas, BA '91, Wins Math Research …

2023 Friends Of The University Of Montana Herbarium Newsletter, Peter Lesica

Newsletters of the Friends of the University of Montana Herbarium

Reviving Interest in the MONTU Diatom Collection / Heidi Abresch -- Notes from the Board / Scott Mincemoyer -- What Good Are Herbaria / Peter Lesica -- Farewell to Shannon -- Introducing Giovanna Bishop -- MONTU Activities

Algorithms And Mathematics Education A Response And Review Of Hannah Fry’S Hello World: Being Human In The Age Of Algorithms, Joshua T. Hertel

The Mathematics Enthusiast

At the outset, Dr. Hannah Fry’s book Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms is an engaging survey of how algorithms are being used in modern life. The book is written for a general audience with a focus on concepts and principles. As such, the narrative does not dig deeply into the details of any particular topic but instead offers a snapshot of how algorithms reside within a variety of contexts in the modern world. Through relatable examples, Dr. Fry builds a narrative that explains how algorithms are used as tools to predict, influence, augment, and mimic human …

Uncertainty In An Uncertain World A Review Of Ian Stewart’S Do Dice Play God?: The Mathematics Of Uncertainty, Luis Saldanha

The Mathematics Enthusiast

In addition to the title’s cheeky play on the famous words God does not play dice with the universe (famously attributed to Einstein), Ian Stewart’s Do Dice Play God is a fascinating tour de force that embeds the discipline of statistics and probability within an informative and insightful socio-historical account of its development. Stewart characterizes the science of statistics and probability as the mathematical quantification of uncertainty—a very useful and productive way to think about a discipline with a reputation for being notoriously difficult and often counter-intuitive for people to understand. But his account goes beyond merely providing such an …

Thinking Essays A Review Of Daniel Tammet’S Thinking In Numbers: On Life, Love, Meaning, And Math, Ann Arden

The Mathematics Enthusiast

Daniel Tammet’s Thinking in Numbers: On Life, Love, Meaning, and Math (2012) is composed of 25 essays that share his views and experiences of mathematics, connections he makes between mathematics and poetry, and biographical stories. He is a writer, a linguist and a tutor who was born in London, England and lives in Paris, France.