Burt Kaufman passed away yesterday. I had the privilege of being taught mathematics and computer science by Mr. Kaufman and of studying under the IMACS curriculum for ten years. In the course of those ten years, he enriched my mind and my life, as he did for countless students, parents and fellow teachers throughout his […]
Loyalty Oath
Though wagging his tail,
Dan barked, "Throw the traitor in jail!"
So to soothe the bulldog,
I insist I won't blog, but
Dan barked, "Throw the traitor in jail!"
So to soothe the bulldog,
I insist I won't blog, but
Now Reading
Planned books:
- Why Not? How to Use Everyday Ingenuity to Solve Problems Big and Small by Barry J. Nalebuff
- The Only Game That Matters : The Harvard/Yale Rivalry by Bernard M. Corbett
- Men of Mathematics (Touchstone Book) by E.T. Bell
- Godel’s Incompleteness Theorems (Oxford Logic Guides) by Raymond M. Smullyan
- All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Current books:
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Les Miserables (Modern Library) by Victor Hugo
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt
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The Buffalo Creek Disaster: How the survivors of one of the worst disasters in coal-mining history brought suit against the coal company–and won by Gerald M. Stern
Recent books:
- An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore
- The Immortal Game : A History of Chess, or How 32 Carved Pieces on a Board Illuminated Our Understanding of War, Art, Science and the Human Brain by David Shenk
- 1776 by David McCullough
- The Case for Israel by Alan Dershowitz
- Boston by Henry Cabot Lodge
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