Tanya Khovanova's Home Page

Random Quote One man with courage is a majority. - Andrew Jackson

• My Math Blog (you can leave comments there) (updated May 2008)
• Essays from My Math Blog (updated May 2008)
  • Divisibility of Odd Fibonaccis May 7, 2008
  • Catalog Choice April 28, 2008
  • Blog Spam April 25, 2008
  • Spring Math Humor April 22, 2008
  • Does Spanking Children Affect their Future Sex Life? March 18, 2008
  • IHateSecurityQuestions March 11, 2008
  • Does Paying with a Credit Card Make You Fatter? March 11, 2008
  • Do Gas Stations Need Your Zip Code? February 29, 2008
  • Resisting Databases. February 29, 2008
  • Numbers Need Sponsors. February 15, 2008
  • Quantifying Favors. February 15, 2008
  • MIT Mystery Hunt Functions. February 15, 2008
  • My Fantasy Future of 2+2: a Copyright Nightmare. January 5, 2008
  • The "Why the Heck?" Diet. January 4, 2008
  • Evaluating Exercise DVDs. December 28, 2007
  • Teaching our Children to Lose the Lottery. December 28, 2007
  • Jumping Off the Cliff. December 22, 2007
  • Autobiographical Numbers. December 14, 2007
  • My Paper Road to Academia. November 16, 2007
  • Fridays the 13th. November 12, 2007
  • My Mid-life Crisis. October 27, 2007
  • 9 Divides no Odd Fibonacci. October 19, 2007
  • Welcome to my Math Blog. October 19, 2007
• How to Create a New Integer Sequence (updated Nov 2007)
• My career (created June 2007)
  • My Text Resume
  • My Picture Resume
  • List of Publications
  • My Sequences - the sequences I submitted to OEIS. (created June 2007)
• My lectures (created Nov 2007)
  • Integers and Sequences
  • Lottery Mathematics
  • Double Trouble
  • Pi Day
  • Math Party
• Recursive Sequences (created February 2007)
• Advanced Dictionary Search (Added June 2006) - Using this program, you can find words with different properties.
• Math Humor (created April 2006)
  • Funny math pictures (Added November 2006)
  • Reasons my kids, Alexey and Sergei, do not do their homework
  • My teacher said
  • How do they do it
  • Light Bulb Jokes
  • Math Jokes
  • Programmer Jokes
• Word Game - Enter a word and I will tell you smaller words which can be made from its letters.
• Reviews of Fun Math Stuff - Great books and toys of mathematical entertainment.
  • Fun Math Book Reviews - Fun math books for kids (and, in some cases, adults) (Updated to include books for Math competitions in April 2007)
  • Math Toy Reviews - Fun math toys for kids (and, in some cases, adults)
  • Dance Movies Reviews (Added April 2007)
• Why did the chicken cross the road? - "Why did the chicken cross the road?" game (added February 2003). Now with a Java applet that lets you check your answers! (Added Sept 2003)
• Number Gossip - Enter your favorite number and I will tell you many surprising things about it
• New Number Gossip! - A new and improved version redesigned by Alexey Radul using Ruby on Rails (Added November 2006)
• My Favorite puzzles - Here I post my favorite puzzles
  • Puzzles with two children
  • Puzzles for programmers
  • Counting information
  • Hat Problems
  • Miscellaneous
• MSU "coffin" problems - Tricky math problems for high school graduates.
• Russian License Plates - License plates which correspond to Russian words ( added new pictures in August 2007)
• Funny Pictures - Real pictures of funny places ( added new pictures in July 2006)
• Links and Interests

External Links

• Alexey Radul's webpage
• Math Alive - A fun math course at Princeton University, where I was a part of the design team

Contact me: Tanya Khovanova

Last revised February 2008