Annals of Improbable Research
MAY | JUNE 2011 (volume 17, number 3)
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Special Issue
Mathematicians &
Bears
Mathematicians and Their
Problems,
A Device to Deter a Bear,
The
Book of Troy...
Contents
The features marked with a star (*) are based entirely on material taken straight from standard research (and other Official and Therefore Always Correct) literature. Many of the other articles are genuine, too, but we don't know which ones.
Special Section: Mathematicians & Bears
Mathematicians and
Their Problems* Marc Abrahams
Mathematicians on Ham
Sandwiches* Marc Abrahams
A Device to Deter a Bear* Nan
Swift
Bear
Research Review * Alice Shirrell Kaswell
Troys New Book
of Bear (and then some) Adventures* Marc
Abrahams
Improbable Research Reviews*
Improbable Research Review* Dirk
Manley
Improbable Medical Review* Bertha
Vanatian
May We
Recommend: Cheney and Crows* Stephen Drew
Soft Is Hard*
Alice Shirrell Kaswell and Bissell Mango
Boys Will Be
Boys* Katherine Lee
Ig and Beyond: Sparrow & Condom*
Nan Swift
News & Notes
Back Issues
AIR Vents (letters from our readers)
AIR Books
Editorial
Board
XKCD:
Centrifuge Randall Munroe
Ig Nobel Limericks:
Photos, Hell, Tips* Martin Eiger
Puzzling Solutions
Emil Filterbag
Teachers Guide
KIM CARTOON:
Domestication of the Dog Nick
Kim
Ptak: Big
Airships of the 1800s* John Ptak
Unclassified Ads
On the Front Cover
A blackboardfull of mathematics, fronted by a bear.
On the Back Covers
A poster for The Great Train Robbery, a popular 1896 play by Scott Marble, in which figured a grizzly bear.