Tanya Khovanova's Home Page

Random Quote The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves. - Edith Sitwell

You can support my website by a donation through PayPal.

If you enjoy my webpage you can support it by buying yourself a gift at amazon through this link. Thank you.

• My Math Blog (you can leave comments there) (updated every week). These are the most popular essays (between 5,000 and 110,000 visits):
  • Divisibility by 7 is a Walk on a Graph, by David Wilson August 11, 2009
  • The Odd One Out October 4, 2009
  • My IQ December 9, 2008
  • The Greatest Mathematician Alive March 20, 2010
  • A Probabilistic Paradox November 19, 2011
  • Should You Date a Mathematician? March 5, 2009
  • A Nerd’s Way to Walk Up the Stairs June 8, 2011
  • Hiring the Smartest People in the World May 1, 2012
  • What Does It Take to Get Accepted by Harvard or Princeton? July 8, 2009
  • Divisibility by 7 is a Walk on a Graph. II, by David Wilson August 1, 2010
  • Time for Nerdy Humor September 23, 2011
  • Back-to-School Funny Pictures September 25, 2008
  • The Dirtiest Math Problem Ever (Rated R) September 3, 2009
  • A Son Born on Tuesday April 9, 2010
  • Math, Love and Immortality December 27, 2010
  • One-Way Functions November 3, 2010
  • Is There Hope for a Female Fields Medalist? April 19, 2009
  • Scary Coins June 16, 2010
  • The Odder One Out December 22, 2009
  • How to Boost Your Guessing Accuracy During Tests january 25, 2010
  • Wise Men Without Hats February 19, 2010
• Essays from My Math Blog. All essays together on the same page (you can't leave comments here)
• Math Competition Training
• 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 Talks, including the most popular ones:
  • Integers and Sequences
  • Set Game Theory
  • Clifford Algebras and Graphs
  • Binary Numbers
  • Divisibility
  • Topology and Art
  • Lottery Mathematics
  • 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.

This document is last modified Thursday, 11-Jun-2015 11:06:02 PDT