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GENERAL INFORMATION

Teaching

My Teaching Page, has links my schedule and to my current courses, as well as a wealth of material (exams, pamphlets) from previous classes. For letters of recommendation , there is required information.

Articles

Below is a sampling of my articles; most are compressed and -unless mentioned otherwise- are in postscript. An almost complete list of my papers is available, along with several preprints.

Many of the articles have abstracts. In addition, if your site subscribes to Mathematical Reviews, then you can read MR reviews of some of my articles electronically.

Miscellany/Interests

• Contradancing and contradance calling. Available are my most recent contradance programs as well as the earliest numbered program.
• I do ECD (English Country Dance) and a bit of Israeli Folkdancing (and occasionally others) and some ballroom dancing (e.g East-coast swing, Rumba).
• Ελευσις: The creative, social, somewhat mathematical game called Eleusis. My Honors Calculus students at Berkeley taught me this game; I now teach it to many of my students. The simple rules of Eleusis (pdf) often lead to surprising patterns. (Eleusis is played with cards, but it is not a card game in the traditional sense.)

• ♜♞♝♛ Chess patzer: ♚♝♞♜ With a high-school friend, Paul Lewis, founded our high-school's chess club, probably in 1972. We competed occasionally with nearby high-schools, and were soundly trounced, as they had had clubs for years. Some 38 years went by without my much touching a chessboard, but now both my kids play, so I have taken it up again. Primarily, I play at the Free Internet Chess Server (FICS); reference FICS Directory. Games are stored at the FICS Games Database.

  Do folks know that there is a UF chess club? –there is indeed. And with its own GCC group and FB.

  
  ♖♘♗♕ Misc. resources: ♔♗♘♖
   ♟ A printable scoresheet.
   ♙ Explore openings: FICS (free) and 365Chess.com (free, registration) and chessgames.com (pay; the free version is quite limited).
   ♟ Endgame Tablebase.
   ♙ Live chess tournaments.
   ♟ Scid-vs-Mac [mac OS], Scid-vs-PC [microsoft OS], is a chess database-management program; quite good.
   ♙ Bill Wall's Chess Resource Site. He had made freely available a pdf version of his book 700 Opening Traps
• I used to juggle (mostly club-passing) and unicycle a bit. Before I entered a 2-dimensional State, I did some mild rock climbing, particularly at The Gunks in downstate New York. Alas, those days are gone for me now (and so are the muscles…).
• GNV has an active Pickleball group.

Tidbits

May 1, 1994 was a happy day for me -the day I married my financée Erin. She then asked me to teach her how to ride unicycle.

By the way, I would like to give credit to the web sites which provided some of the images on my webpages.