MY ARTICLES "MATHEMATICAL CURIOSITIES" IN SIAM NEWS

A Paper Thickness Puzzle

Symmetric Matrices and (a little) work

Spinning tops, magnetic fields and spinning frames

A Sprinkler Paradox

Exponential spirals and slings

Phase lag, geometrically​

Pythagorus by rotation

Einstein's pendulum  

Does air rotate with tires?

Running in the rain

Resistance and conformal maps - II

What is entropy?

Soap film and Hamiltonian systems

Some shallow remarks

Resistance and conformal maps-I

A pressure puzzle

On the air

How do snakes slither?

Wrong results by right methods and vice versa

Cosine addition formula via work

Elliptical Eyes

Ulam's ping-pong, Adiabatic Invariants and Entropy

Minimizing the length - and the algebra

A competence problem

Strolling through Jacobi fields

Hanging cables

Stacking rocks

Western Sunrise

A Coriolis pair paradox

Heron's formula - a simple derivation

Geometric sum, geometrically

Cauchy-Schwarz, via springs

Knife in the water

Lagrange multipliers and depth

Polar decomposition of matrices by mechanics

A physical interpretation of the  Wronskian

Feynman's flying saucer, II

Feynman's flying saucer, I

Cauchy-Schwarz inequality and a paradox/puzzle

Mirages on the road and the Poincare metric

Which energy is greater?

Getting focused

Opening a wine bottle with a  book

A perspective on altitudes

Orthocenter, Archimedean style

From Archimedes and Euclid to Hamilton and Poincare

Bedford's law and accelerated growth

A bike and a catenary

A boat paradox

The quicker solution to the brachistochrone problem

Measuring curvature with a  bike 

A cycloid is a tautochrone

Downwind, faster than the wind

An electrician's proof of Euler's polyhedral formula

Foucault's pendulum with a twist

Further upon reflections: caustics in a ball

A bike wheel and the Gauss-Bonnet theorem

Gromov's non-squeezing theorem and optics

Heat exchange and some frivolous aspects of e. 

A near-perfect heat exchange

An inverted pendulum: defying gravity and intuition

Kelvin's circulation theorem and an isoperimetric inequality

Particles of negative mass and the Krein-Moser theory

A Lagrange multiplier problem without multipliers

Bulletproof vests and Lie brackets

A minimalist minimizes and integral

Moebius map in hinges, bikes and more

The moon sine

Moser's theorem on Jacobians by diffusion

Focusing on nephroids

Parabola of safety and the Jacobian

Measuring areas with a shopping cart

Pythagorean theorem on ice

Reflecting on reflections

Riemann Mapping by steepest descent

Slings, bullets and blow-up

Some light geometry

Newtonian dynamics = spring theory

Symmetric metrics and a little work

Telescopes and symplectic maps

Perpetual motion and the Theorem of Cosines

The thin lens formula and springs 

A water-based solution of polynomial equations

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