AoPS Wiki:Words of the Week

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The AoPSWiki Words of the Week are the "featured" words on AoPSWiki for the week. Typically, every week one mathematical term and one "other" topic (a contest, a summer camp, a problem-solving strategy, etc.) will be selected.

All AoPSWiki users are particularly encouraged to edit the pages for the Words of the Week as a collaborative effort.

Words of the Week

AoPSWiki Words of the Week
(October 31 - November 6)

• Platonic solid
• MOEMS

August 22-August 28

• Simon's Favorite Factoring Trick
• Game Theory books

August 15-August 21

• Induction
• China Girls Math Olympiad

August 8-August 14

• Euclid
• Euclidean algorithm

August 1-August 7

• Geometric sequence
• Isaac Newton

July 25-July 31

• Pierre Fermat
• Fermat's Little Theorem

July 18-July 24

• Leonhard Euler
• Euler's totient function

July 11-July 17

• Mathcounts
• Chinese Remainder Theorem

July 4-July 10

• Research Science Institute
• Pigeonhole Principle

June 27-July 3

• International Mathematical Olympiad
• Arithmetic Mean-Geometric Mean Inequality

June 20-26

• William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition
• Roots of unity

June 13-19

• Mathematical Olympiad Summer Program
• Power of a Point Theorem

June 6-12

• Angle Bisector Theorem
• ARML

May 20-27

• Jordan-Hölder Theorem
• Asian Pacific Mathematics Olympiad

May 4-19

• Squeeze Play Theorem (diff: [1])
• Math Day at the Beach (diff: [2])

April 25-May 3

• 0.999... (diff: [3])
• Seniors Pancyprian Competition (diff: [4])

April 15-24

• Equation (diff: [5])
• Mu Alpha Theta (diff: [6])

April 6-14

• Manifold (diff: [7])
• IMO Shortlist (diff: [8])

March 28-April 5

• Economics scholarships (diff: [9])
• Multiplicative function (diff: [10])

March 20-27

• Michigan Mathematics Prize Competition (diff: [11])
• Pascal's Theorem (diff: [12])

March 12-19

• Reader's Digest National Word Power Challenge (diff: [13])
• Isomorphism (diff: [14])

March 1-11

• Gravity (diff: [15])
• AMC 8 (diff: [16])

February 20-29

• Momentum (diff: [17])
• Center for Talented Youth (diff: [18])

February 12-19

• Parallel Postulate (diff: [19])
• AMC 10 (diff: [20])

February 4-11

• Mathematics (diff: [21])
• Cyclic sum (diff: [22])

January 29-February 3

• Euclid's Elements (diff: [23])
• Analysis (diff: [24])

January 17-28

• Expected value (diff: [25])
• Recursion (diff: [26])

January 10-16

• Euclidean algorithm (diff: [27])
• Euclid (diff: [28])

January 3-9

• Graph (graph theory) (diff: [29])
• Carl Friedrich Gauss (diff: [30])

WotW was on vacation December 20th through January 2nd.

December 13-19

• Diophantine equation (diff: [31])
• William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition (diff: [32])

December 6-December 12

• Fibonacci sequence (diff: [33])
• Siemens Competition (diff: [34])

November 29-December 5

• Logarithm (diff: [35])
• Canada/USA Mathcamp (diff: [36])

November 22-28

• Concurrence (diff: [37])
• Intel Science Talent Search (diff: [38])

November 15-21

• Generating function (diff: [39])
• American Regions Mathematics League (diff: [40])

November 8-14

• Asymptote (Geometry) (diff: [41])
• AMC historical results (diff: [42])

November 1-7

• Combinations (diff: [43])
• Mathematics scholarships (diff: [44])

October 25-31

• Congruent (geometry) (diff: [45])
• Discrete math (diff: [46])

October 18-24

• Trapezoid (diff: [47])
• Mandelbrot Competition (diff: [48])

October 11-17

• Unit circle (diff: [49])
• Proof writing (diff: [50])

October 4-10

• Law of Cosines (diff: [51])
• USAMTS (diff: [52])

September 27-October 3

• Probability (diff: [53])
• USACO (diff: [54])

September 20-26

• Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament (diff: [55])
• Convex polygon (diff: [56])

September 13-19

• MathPath (diff: [57])
• Proportion (diff: [58])

September 6-12

• iTest (diff: [59])
• Pyramid (diff: [60])

Editing tips

For mathematical topics

• Don't just define! Give examples. If the topic is related to problem solving, it is also good to provide examples of actual problems that utilize that technique.
• Have lots of links to other related topics. Have links to other wiki pages that talk about terms that you use. Edit those other pages too!
• Images are often very useful, especially in fields like geometry. See A:IMG for image related syntax. Or alternatively you can use Asymptote to draw geometry diagrams.

For other topics

• For contests: describe
  • how the contest works
  • who runs it
  • a bit about its history
  • what types of students can/should participate
  • any prizes
  • other related contests
  • a link to the contest's website
• For summer camps:
  • Nuts and bolts: where, how long, how much
  • Compare to other summer camps
  • Try to be objective. The forum is a place to give your opinions. The wiki is a place to give facts.

See also

• AoPSWiki Tutorial
• Wikipedia cheatsheet (has basic wiki syntax)