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Tenth - 2012
The Tenth Annual NES/MAA Dinner Meeting in Memory of Kenneth J.
Preskenis was held on Wednesday, May 2, 2012. Dr. Colin Adams,
Williams College, and Dr. Thomas Garrity, Williams College, gave
the presentation, "The Great pi / e Debate".
Dr. Adams is the 1996 winner of the NES/MAA Award for Distinguished
College or University Teaching and the 1998 winner of the MAA's Deborah
and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University
Teaching of Mathematics.
Dr. Garrity is the 2004 winner of the MAA's Deborah and Franklin Tepper
Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of
Mathematics.
Abstract: We settle once and for all the
burning question that has plagued humankind from time immemorial: "Which
is the better number, e or pi?" In what is arguably (it is a losing
argument, but it is an argument nonetheless) the most important debate
of the millennium, Adams and Garrity use any means within their powers,
legal or otherwise, to prove their points. Our debaters challenge
orthodoxy, speak loudly and behave rather badly in their attempts to
convince the audience of the absolutely ridiculous nature of their
competitors’ arguments. This event may have the historical significance
of the Edict of Nantes, the Yalta conference, or the Kennedy-Nixon
debates. Or perhaps not. But just in case, you don't want to miss it.
Dinner Meeting
Program
We thank Sodexho, the Office of the Vice
President of Academic Affairs, Pearson Education, and
Brooks/Cole, Cengage Learning for their support of the 2012 NES/MAA
Dinner Meeting in Memory of Kenneth J. Preskenis.
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