Principal Author

Graduate Research Assistants

• Randy Gober, Winter 1997
• Jason York, Summer 1997–Summer 1998
• Christine Nickel, Summer 1999
• Dawn Duehring, 2000–2003

Evaluators

The principle reviewers for the project are

• David Griffeath, University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Roger Johnson, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
• John Paulos, Temple University
• Mike Pepe, Seattle Central Community College
• Don Piele, University of Wisconsin, Parkside
• Jerry Porter, University of Pennsylvania
• Neil Weiss, Arizona State University

Contributors

Special thanks to

• Houman Owhadi for establishing the EPFL mirror site.
• Marcus Pendergrass for the graph in the section on bold play in the game of red and black.
• Christine Nickel and Jason York for the M&M data.
• Ginger Rowell and Robert Grammer for the Cicada data.
• Mario Triola for suggesting the random triangle problem.
• Marcus Pendergrass for suggesting the Twelve Days of Christmas problem in the section on combinatorial structures.
• Ranjith Unnikrishnan for the variance of the sample covariance.
• Wojtek Ruszczewski for a meticulous reading and numerous corrections in the chapter on foundations.
• Roy Long for corrections and helpful comments in the section on optimal strategies for the game of red and black.

Portions of the material in this project were developed in conjunction with the Distributome Project.

Image Credits

• The beautiful card images used in the various card experiments were created by Adrian Kennard.
• The car and goat images used in the Monty Hall apps are from SVG Silh.

Support and Partnerships

• From January, 1997 to December 1999, the project was partially supported by the National Science Foundation, through the Course and Curriculum Development Program of the Division of Undergraduate Education in the Directorate for Education and Human Resources. The award number was DUE-9652870.
• From January, 2000 to December 2004, the object library portion of the project was partially supported by the National Science Foundation, through the Course and Curriculum Development Program of the Division of Undergraduate Education in the Directorate for Education and Human Resources. The award number was DUE-0089377.
• The project was also partially supported by the University of Alabama in Huntsville from 1997 to 2013.
• This project was a partner in the Mathematics Digital Library (MathDL), which was part of the National Science Digital Library (NSDL), supported by the National Science Foundation and the Mathematical Association of America.

The Obligatory Disclaimer

Opinions expressed here are those of the author and not necessarily those of the National Science Foundation, the University of Alabama in Huntsville, the partners, the contributors, or the principle reviewers. The material in this project is provided as a service to the educational community. No warranties are expressed or implied as to the correctness or usefulness of the material. So there!

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Thanks!

We are very grateful to the graduate assistants, sponsors, reviewers, contributors, and bug reporters for their support and help.