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...books - an endorsement by the New York Times crosswords editor is as good as gold. He's sold more than 5 million volumes of Sudoku games and has now moved on to KenKen, a numerical logic puzzle invented by a Japanese educator as a clever way to teach math to kids (the name means "cleverness squared" in Japanese). Shortz held the first U.S. KenKen tournament this weekend at the 32nd annual American Crosswords Puzzle tournament in Brooklyn, which drew more than 900 people from across the world - including KenKen's creator, Tetsuya Miyamoto, who flew in from Tokyo...
...awkward but affable undergrads. They were either from Harvard, BU, or Northeastern. Some wore yarmulkes, some not. Most were from New York or Boston and were studying economics, science, or math. A few tried to start with jokes, but unfortunately, none of these were memorable enough to be repeated here. They smiled a lot and asked me why I had left California to go to school at Harvard. None of them asked...
...math looks like this, he said: his pension pays him a little more than $50,000 before taxes, out of which he pays about $800 a month for medical insurance. That leaves some $2,400 a month, he said, for his mortgage and other expenses. He has about $15,000 in unpaid medical bills and a similar amount in missed house payments. He has no significant assets; his home equity is gone. Houses comparable to his in more desirable neighborhoods are selling for less than the amount he owes to the Bank of New York Mellon. As the saying goes...
...sensory experience. This is something that needs to be brought to light. I know this is far less fun than my usual ode to sandwiches, but it is the other side of the same fascination with food. Just like you can’t talk about the genius of Math 55-ers without mentioning Asperger’s occasionally, it would be irresponsible to fixate on sandwiches and not address the darker side of this obsession. Disordered eating is the white elephant in a room full of foodies. In college, separated from my manorexic boyfriend and my modelesque friends...
When’s the last time you saw your professor on the street in nothing but booty shorts and a pair of rollerblades? If you’re interested in seeing a video, just visit Professor Oliver R. Knill’s personal blog, easily found on the Math 21b course Web site. Knill’s blog is part of his open and informal approach to teaching. He says that developing a personal connection with students can help to prevent students from feeling overwhelmed in large lectures. “I think these courses are very hard?...