Tanya Khovanova's Home Page

Random Quote An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her. - Agatha Christie

• My Math Blog (you can leave comments there) (updated November 2008)
• Essays from My Math Blog (updated November 2008)
  • Does Taller Mean Smarter? March 20, 2009
  • Stackable Letters March 8, 2009
  • Sunrise Mistake March 6, 2009
  • Romanian Masters in Mathematics March 6, 2009
  • A Hole for Jews March 4, 2009
  • Can Someone Be Straight? March 2, 2009
  • Fly Droppings on Your Pizza March 1, 2009
  • Linguistics Puzzles February 19, 2009
  • Math without Breaking a Nail February 18, 2009
  • Celebrating with a Consenting Adult February 18, 2009
  • Sexacholics at MIT Mystery Hunt February 12, 2009
  • Fire, Help! February 11, 2009
  • Dow Jones Index and Presidents February 7, 2009
  • Linguistics, Arrogance, KGB February 6, 2009
  • Computational Linguistics Olympiad February 5, 2009
  • Odd Fibonacci and Odd Lucas Numbers February 3, 2009
  • All the Dirt on Number 5 January 25, 2009
  • Thue-Morse Odiousness January 24, 2009
  • Richard and James January 21, 2009
  • Is Anyone Watching? January 21, 2009
  • Political Analysis of USA-Russia Relations through Russian Anecdotes January 14, 2009
  • Metasolving AMC 8 January 13, 2009
  • My Next Step December 31, 2008
  • My Paper Road Block December 25, 2008
  • Confusion about Vampires December 25, 2008
  • Probability Theory for Crooks December 24, 2008
  • China Girls Math Olympiad December 10, 2008
  • Another Two Coins Puzzle December 10, 2008
  • Statistics Homework December 10, 2008
  • My IQ December 9, 2008
  • The Women and Math Program December 9, 2008
  • Safer Parking November 27, 2008
  • Two Coins Puzzle November 27, 2008
  • How I Chose My Math Adviser November 27, 2008
  • Eye Color and Math Ability November 21, 2008
  • Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes November 20, 2008
  • Hanged or Electrocuted? November 20, 2008
  • The Designated Listener November 19, 2008
  • The Word "Love" and Tomatoes November 9, 2008
  • What's Hidden? November 7, 2008
  • It's All My Fault November 7, 2008
  • Perfect Math Notation November 6, 2008
  • A Room Full of Women November 5, 2008
  • Linear Algebra for Pirates October 31, 2008
  • Borrowing Money October 30, 2008
  • The Right Time to Have Children October 22, 2008
  • Library Puzzle October 20, 2008
  • Four Puzzles for the Price of One October 19, 2008
  • A Math Puzzle that Sounds like a Computer Science Puzzle October 18, 2008
  • Math Career Predictor October 16, 2008
  • Linear Algebra at a Math Olympiad October 12, 2008
  • Designing Bill Gates' Bathroom October 11, 2008
  • Who Should Have Kissed Whom October 10, 2008
  • Girls' Angle October 10, 2008
  • The Polynomial Game October 9, 2008
  • Recounting Cats October 8, 2008
  • (x, why?) Webcomics October 8, 2008
  • High Price of Bounced Checks October 5, 2008
  • More Postings ...
• Math Competition Training (created October 2008)
• How to Create a New Integer Sequence
• My career
  • My Text Resume
  • My Picture Resume
  • List of Publications
  • My Sequences — the sequences I submitted to OEIS.
• My Lectures
  • Integers and Sequences
  • Set Game Theory
  • Clifford Algebras and Graphs
  • Binary Numbers
  • Divisibility
  • Topology and Art
  • Unique Tournaments and Radar Tracking
  • Lottery Mathematics
  • Double Trouble
  • Pi Day
  • Math Party
• Recursive Sequences
• Advanced Dictionary Search — Using this program, you can find words with different properties.
• Math Humor
  • Funny math pictures
  • 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 Books Reviews — Fun math books for kids and adults
  • Math Toys Reviews — Fun math toys for kids and adults
  • Relationship and Self-Help Books Reviews ( November 2008)
  • Dance Movies Reviews
  • Dance Exercise DVDs Reviews ( September 2008)
• Why did the chicken cross the road? — "Why did the chicken cross the road?" game. Now with a Java applet that lets you check your answers!
• Number Gossip! — Enter your favorite number and I will tell you many surprising things about it
• 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
• Funny Pictures — Real pictures of funny places
• 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 March 2009