By Josh Feldman
Every year, I give dozens of interviews for my alma mater, a way-too-tough-to-get-into university in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
Puzzles
By Stephen Meskin
It is mid-March as I sit composing this column. All these problems have a connection, possibly tenuous, to March.
By Josh Feldman
Lots of people ask me what I think about running, trying to figure out how I keep focused during a long run on the mean streets of Columbia.
By Josh Feldman
As if running on New Orleans streetcar tracks isn’t dangerous enough, a new, darker, more treacherous phenomenon has taken America by storm.
By Stephen Meskin
I came across the following interesting problem from the 61st Annual International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), which was held remotely on Sept. 20 & 21, 2020. The IMO is the world’s leading mathematical competition for high school students.
By Josh Feldman
I don’t know about you, but by the end of winter this year, I needed a vacation.
By Stephen Meskin
This column could stop here with just the title. But I get paid by the word, so I’ll ramble on a bit before we get to Josh’s solution to the problem he posed in the last issue.
By Josh Feldman
With the pandemic going on far longer than anyone had imagined, our local gang used to meet at The Gardens in town so we could see each other in a socially distant way while keeping in touch.
By Stephen Meskin
For those who remember the puzzles I posed in my “Crossnumber Puzzles” (January/February 2019), the puzzles this time are to fill a 4 × 5 matrix in which each of the nine clues (four across and five down) is the same: a perfect square with the proviso that all nine perfect squares are different.