About me
So who is this crazy guy who likes to write about math? My name is Brent Yorgey. I live with my beautiful wife Joyia in Philadelphia, where I am a PhD student in the programming languages group at the University of Pennsylvania. In the past I have taught math and computer science at my alma mater, Woodrow Wilson SHS (a DC public school), and worked as a Java software developer. I got my undergraduate degree (in computer science) at Williams College in northwestern Massachusetts.
Other notable interests of mine include music (I sing and play classical and jazz piano), Go (an amazing, ancient board game which you can read about here), bridge, Linux and ancient Greek, among others.
In addition to The Math Less Traveled, I also maintain another blog aimed more at an audience of peers (although anyone is welcome to read it, of course). There you’ll find musings on mathematics, programming (especially Haskell), and grad school.
Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions for me, suggestions or ideas for this blog, or just want to chat. To find my e-mail address, start with the following and “subtract one” from each letter (for example, you should change the first “c” into a “b”, and so on). There will still be one incorrect letter but it will be obvious what you should correct it to.
czpshfz@hnbjm.wpn
There. I’d like to see an address-harvesting robot get around that!
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[...] about some cool math, I promise! In the meantime… as you may know if you’ve read my mini-bio, I love playing the ancient Asian game of Go. It’s a really amazingly beautiful game, and if [...]
Wonderful blog! I shall look forward to reading this and your other blog regularly.
I would like to correspond with you, in due course, about “practical means to show people the beauty, poetry and power of math (in addition to excellent things like your blog)”: for this purpose I’d like to send you information about the ‘One Page Management System’ (OPMS), a generic aid to problem solving and decision making based on the seminal contributions to systems science from Professor John N. Warfield. This material would consist of PowerPoint presentations and Word documents (about 1.5-2 MB in size should be OK to give you a good idea about OPMS and its potential for the above purpose. – Do please let me know if I may send you this material.
More later,
GSC
GSC: Thanks, I’m glad you enjoy the blog!
After taking a look at some of the material on your website I do not think I am interested in OPMS right now, but thank you for the offer.
Hi, Brent:
Thanks for your response.
I have no website, so I don’t know what material you have seen.
Best wishes
GSC
The website I looked at was here:
http://onepagems.tripod.com/
Is this not yours?
Just want so say “hiya” to a fellow Eph and show my appreciation for your blog. :-)
Alison: thanks! =D