Month: November 2011
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Project Euler
My friend Aaron just pointed me to this site, but I think I’d seen it before, in a less-polished state. Project Euler (http://projecteuler.net/) This page has a sequence of 360 challenging math and computing problems. If you sign up for an account, you can track your progress in solving the problems. The problems are not trivial…
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Remembering Mr. Geller
I first met Mr. Geller in the mid-80s when I was a high school student. My Stuyvesant math team friends snuck me into the math team practice one morning, and Mr. Geller was the math team coach. Although he enjoyed a reputation for being quite strict, he made an exception in my case and I…