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At the Carriage House: Remembering Paul Halmos

The story of Paul Halmos' life (1916-2006) is one you might see on a movie screen or read about in an inspirational storybook. He was a Hungarian-born immigrant who entered the United States as a teenager, speaking what he called "rapid, incorrect, ungrammatical English."  Yet, he graduated from high school by age 15 and from college three years later.

John Harvey, Mathematician and Mathematics Educator, Dies Suddenly

John G. Harvey, retired Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, died suddenly on May 3. He received his Ph.D. degree from Tulane University in 1961 in the area of partially ordered groups, working with Paul Conrad. He co-authored a paper with Conrad and Holland in which they proved the Hahn embedding theorem for lattice-ordered groups.

USA Mathematical Olympiad: 2007 USAMO Winners

This year, 505 outstanding high school students qualified for the 2007 USA Mathematical Olympiad. On April 24-25, these students tackled a challenging, six-question exam, distributed via the Internet to their schools. The twelve winners are (in alphabetical order):

Sergei Bernstein, 10th grade, Belmont High School, Belmont, Mass.

Sherry Gong, 12th Grade, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N.H.

Adam Hesterberg, 12th Grade, Garfield High School, Seattle, Wash.

A Sudoku Challenge: The Carriage House Puzzle

Laura Taalman, of James Madison University, finds sudoku puzzles endlessly fascinating. She has created a wide variety of entertaining variants, and she described many of them during her presentation at last week's MAA Carriage House Conference Center opening celebration.

Carriage House Opening: A Mathematical Carnival

The MAA celebrated the opening of its Carriage House Conference Center last week with a veritable mathematical carnival. Researchers, educators, students, and others enjoyed presentations that featured juggling, card shuffling, sleight-of-hand, sudoku puzzles, drag racing, lightning-fast calculation, driver's license numbers, sums of squares, and prime numbers.

Putnam Competition Results: Princeton Captures Top Prize

The three-member team from Princeton University—Ana Caraiani, Andrei Negut, and Aaron C. Pixton—took the top prize of $25,000 at the 2006 William Lowell Mathematical Competition, which was held last December. In addition, each team member received a prize of $1,000.

The William Lowell Putnam Competition—a challenging mathematics exam for North American undergraduates—is administered by the MAA.

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August 06, 2009 Book Details How Mathematicians Who Fled Nazis Affected Development of U.S. Mathematics
August 05, 2009 Second Report on 2008 Annual Survey of U.S. Mathematical Sciences Indicates Slight Gains
August 04, 2009 Sophia Kovalevskaya Depicted in Alice Munro Story
August 03, 2009 Symmetry Festival 2009 Kicks Off
July 31, 2009 MAA Included in 100 Best Websites for Mathletes
July 30, 2009 Rejecta Mathematica Offers a Second Chance for Some Mathematics
July 29, 2009 Britain Allocates 10,000 More University Spots to STEM
July 28, 2009 Computational Learning is Key Aspect of Early Intelligence
July 27, 2009 New Website Will Link Math Circles Nationwide
July 24, 2009 Math May Help Increase Success Rate of Tissue Transfer in Plastic Surgery
July 23, 2009 China Wins 2009 International Mathematical Olympiad
July 22, 2009 World War II Codebreakers Will be Recognized for Service
July 21, 2009 Philoctetes Center Invites Public to Round-Table Discussions on Mathematics
July 20, 2009 J. Michael Shaughnessy Elected Next NCTM President
July 17, 2009 New Facial Recognition Software Will Ruin Your Disguise
July 16, 2009 New Findings Refute Randomness of Social Security Numbers
July 15, 2009 The Late Doris DeBoe’s Dedication Inspired Many
July 14, 2009 MAA's Art Benjamin Talks Statistics in Recent TED Lecture
July 13, 2009 National Research Council Calls for Initiative on Early Math Instruction
July 10, 2009 See the Ascent of Mathematics in PBS' "The Ascent of Money"

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