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...youngest professor ever tenured at Harvard," said Lowell house math concentrator Sameer Satija '01. True. "He has the best endgame in the world," said Pranav Anand '01, another Lowell math concentrator. Nope. "But he did lose to the A.B.P. chess master," Anand added. That part's true. "I've heard he can bench about 300 pounds," Heidi K. Kim '01 said. Maybe, but he'll never admit it. Professor of Mathematics Noam Elkies is something of a Harvard living legend, though he doesn't really understand...
...about his talent and accomplishments in math, music, and chess, he'll be quick to tell you there are people more accomplished than he in each, even at this very school. Sure, but can they do all three? And whistle and hum in counterpoint? (A neat trick where he whistles a tune while simultaneously humming the accompaniment. And yes—he does take requests...
...attention? Maybe because he's very smart. Maybe because he wears very big glasses. But one major reason is definitely his visibility—Prof. Elkies is a very Harvard guy. He's been here 17 of his 36 years, and can often be found in Lowell House, the math department or even...
...freshman here, Noam Elkies took Math 55, but he was so good they told him that he should start graduate classes," math concentrator Damian Wishiewski '01 said. Actually, Elkies admits that he "unfortunately" didn't attend Harvard as an undergraduate. He graduated from Columbia College in 1985, so he never took the intense, boot-camp-for-math-concentrators course known as Math 55. Although he does teach it right...
...Before Columbia, Elkies attended Stuyvesant High School in his native New York City, a high school known for its strength in math and science. He was born in Manhattan in 1966, where he lived several years before moving to Israel, then came back to New York in 1978. Growing up, of course, he had always been good at math...