Mathematics Field Day T-Shirt History
T-Shirts
2022鈥33rd Annual Field Day
A recursive program that solves the 鈥淭ower of Hanoi鈥 puzzle with 鈥3鈫3鈥 disks.
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Here is a Java implementation of this program with 3, 6, and 10 discs.
2020鈥32nd Annual Field Day
A five-dimensional hypercube with 32 vertices.
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2019鈥31st Annual Field Day
31 is a Mersenne Prime. As of February 2019 only 51 Mersenne primes had been discovered.
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2018鈥30th Annual Field Day
30 is a square pyramidal number: it is the sum of the first four squares.
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2017鈥29th Annual Field Day
Maximum number of pieces when cutting a pizza 7 times = 29.
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2016鈥28th Annual Field Day
Euclid鈥檚 Proposition IX.36, with n=3, implies that 28 is a perfect number.
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2014鈥27th Annual Field Day
A cube (volume = 27) progresses towards a Menger sponge (fractal dimension 鈮 2.7).
2013鈥26th Annual Field Day
Front: a net for a rhombicuboctahedron.
Back: a rhombicuboctahedron with its 26 faces.
Here is a video demo that creates a rhombicuboctahedron from its net.
2012鈥25th Annual Field Day
Prime factorization reveals that only perfect squares have an odd number of factors.
2011鈥24th Annual Field Day
A Cayley graph depicting 伪 and 尾 as generators of S4, which has 24 elements.
2010鈥23rd Annual Field Day
Relation between 23, e, and 蟺, and a skeletal proof showing why 蟺e < e蟺.
2009鈥22nd Annual Field Day
Maximum number of pieces when cutting a pizza 6 times = 22.
2008鈥21st Annual Field Day
Binet鈥檚 formula for Fibonacci numbers gives F8 = 21.
2005鈥19th Annual Field Day
Front: a net for an icosahedron.
Back: an icosahedron and a formula for its volume.
2005鈥19th Annual Field Day
Front: a design illustrating that 19 is a hexagonal number.
Back: a formula for Hn, the nth hexagonal number, with H2 = 19.
2004鈥18th Annual Field Day
A Celtic knot with 18 crossings.
2003鈥17th Annual Field Day
Gauss鈥 construction of a regular 17-gong.
2002鈥16th Annual Field Day
A hypercube with its 16 vertices.
2001鈥15th Annual Field Day
A combinatorial identity.