{"id":11763,"date":"2012-03-02T17:38:18","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T21:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/umweagleeye.wpengine.com\/?p=11763"},"modified":"2012-03-02T17:38:18","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T21:38:18","slug":"keith-mellinger-publishes-in-college-mathematics-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/2012\/03\/02\/keith-mellinger-publishes-in-college-mathematics-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"Keith Mellinger Publishes in College Mathematics Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><div id=\"attachment_6582\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/umweagleeye.wpengine.com\/2011\/06\/16\/keith-mellinger-3\/mellinger-keith10\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6582\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6582\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-6582\" title=\"Mellinger, Keith10\" src=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/06\/Mellinger-Keith10-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/06\/Mellinger-Keith10-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/06\/Mellinger-Keith10-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/06\/Mellinger-Keith10-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6582\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Keith Mellinger<\/p><\/div><p>Keith Mellinger, associate professor and chair of the Department of Mathematics, together with a colleague from Kean University in N.J., recently published &ldquo;The Spider and the Fly&rdquo; in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maa.org\/pubs\/cmj.html\">College Mathematics Journal<\/a>, a&nbsp;publication of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maa.org\/\">Mathematical Association of America<\/a>.<\/p><p>The Spider and the Fly puzzle, originally attributed to the great puzzler Henry Ernest Dudeney, and now over 100 years old, asks for the shortest path between two points on a particular square prism.&nbsp;The authors&nbsp;explore a generalization, find that the original solution only holds in certain cases, and suggest how this discovery might be used in the classroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[caption id=\"attachment_6582\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"150\" caption=\"Keith Mellinger\"]<a href=\"http:\/\/umweagleeye.wpengine.com\/2011\/06\/16\/keith-mellinger-3\/mellinger-keith10\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6582\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-6582\" title=\"Mellinger, Keith10\" src=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/06\/Mellinger-Keith10-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/06\/Mellinger-Keith10-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/06\/Mellinger-Keith10-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/06\/Mellinger-Keith10-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>[\/caption]\n<p>Keith Mellinger, associate professor and chair of the Department of Mathematics, together with a colleague from Kean University in N.J., recently published &#8220;The Spider and the Fly&#8221; in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maa.org\/pubs\/cmj.html\">College Mathematics Journal<\/a>, a\u00a0publication of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maa.org\/\">Mathematical Association of America<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Spider and the Fly puzzle, originally attributed to the great puzzler Henry Ernest Dudeney, and now over 100 years old, asks for the shortest path between two points on a particular square prism.\u00a0The authors\u00a0explore a generalization, find that the original solution only holds in certain cases, and suggest how this discovery might be used in the classroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5991,"featured_media":6582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[319,60],"class_list":["post-11763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-professional-notes","tag-department-of-mathematics","tag-kmelling","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5991"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}