Here are a few links not directly related to my research.

• Chess problems
  Some links to chess problems on the web.

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• Consciousness
  

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• My Putnam problems
  A list of problems I submitted for inclusion on the Putnam Exam when I was a member of the three-person committee to write the 1984-86 exams (8 page PostScript file).

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• Juggling
  

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• Online card trick
  

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• Encyclopedias, glossaries, etc.
  Some specialized reference sites on the web.

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• Illusions
  Some amazing optical and auditory illusions.

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• At Caltech during the academic year 1963-1964 I took the first course (Ma 108, Advanced Calculus) ever taught by Donald Knuth. Here is the front page from my final exam of the second quarter. Note the typical Knuth humor in the lower-right corner. Here and here is the exam.
  

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• Partial Stanley family: my wife, father, brother, mother, me, brother's wife, nephew, cousin, and cousin's wife, taken 1999 in Englewood, Colorado
  

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• Ellis Island: my mother's father's mother arriving in the USA at Ellis Island around 1895. The second person from the left is the maternal grandmother of Michael Tilson Thomas. My grandfather was not yet born. (Caption at top written by my mother.)
  

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• Seidenstein family: my mother's mother's parents and three of their children, around 1903. My mother's mother is the second from the right.
  

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• Kenneth
  My son's home page. An interview. Some computerized pictures of him.
  

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• Sharon: a web page about my daughter
  Abstract of an article written by her entitled "Retreat from Politics: The Cynic in Modern Times"
  

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• Birth announcement arranged by my grandparents. Note: this announcement suggests that I was born in Larchmont, NY, but this is false. I was born in New York City. My mother was living with her parents in Larchmont when I was born, and my father was overseas serving in World War II.
  

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• Biography of my mother's father's sister's daughter's son.
  

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• Gian-Carlo Rota, 1932-1999
  Some links related to my thesis adviser.

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• An unexpected relationship among some of my former students

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• The Early Years
  How I became interested in mathematics (two page PDF file).

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• Oimyakon and Verkhoyansk weather.
  The coldest towns in the world during winter. Two other chilly places: Amundsen-Scott Station (South Pole) and Vostok (the coldest place on the earth's surface).

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• Polynomials with interesting sets of zeros: some examples

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• Find a positive integer n<10,000,000 such that the first four digits (in the decimal expansion) of n^1,000,000 are all different. The problem should be solved in your head. Answer.

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• Which combinatorialist has the most number of syllables in his/her (non-compound) surname? Here is a candidate.

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• Top box office movies. An exceptional number are math-related. Thanks to Christine Bessenrodt for discovering this surprising information.

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• On what day in the year 2014 (among all days that year) will the least number of women in the United States have a natural (noninduced) childbirth? Answer.

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• The star-nosed mole: a strange-looking animal

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• A contribution to bridge bidding theory entitled "Informative redoubles of 7NTx" (Postscript or PDF), Bridge Today, July/August 2001, pp. 52-53 (two pages). Also discussed in the ACBL Bridge Bulletin, February 2002, page 116.

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