Ed Pegg, Jr.
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| Edward T. Pegg | |
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| Born | December 7, 1963 Denver, Colorado |
| Occupation | Mathematician |
| Genres | Mathematical puzzles, Mathematical recreation |
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www.mathpuzzle.com |
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Ed Pegg, Jr. is an expert on mathematical puzzles and is a self-described recreational mathematician. He creates puzzles for the Mathematical Association of America online at Ed Pegg, Jr.'s Math Games. His puzzles have also been used by Will Shortz on the puzzle segment of NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday. In 2000, he left NORAD to join Wolfram Research, where he collaborated on A New Kind of Science (NKS). In 2004 he started assisting Eric W. Weisstein at Wolfram MathWorld.[1] He has made contributions to several hundred MathWorld articles.[2] He is one of the chief consultants for Numb3rs.
[edit] References
- ^ MathWorld Headline News and About MathWorld. Retrieved on 31 January 2007.
- ^ MathWorld Contributors: Pegg
[edit] External links
- MathPuzzle
- Ed Pegg, Jr.'s Math Games
- Demonstrations by Ed Pegg, Jr.
- The Math Behind Numb3rs
- CBS puzzle
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