The Puzzlers
I graduaded at the University of Groningen in
1987 in Math. Number theory has always been an interest of me. I like to
solve a good puzzle (in general). Although I program once in a while
(reinvent the wheel mainly, to see whether I get the same results) I
prefer problems concerning solvability, existence of a solution to finding
huge solutions to a problem. On the other hand the methods/shortcuts
employed to find these titanic primes /numbers are theoretically quite
interesting.
Since I got my degree I teach Math at the Van
Hall Institute in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands. Van Hall Institute is the
(/a) University of Professional Education for Agriculture, Food Technology
and Environmental and Animal Sciences. I try to incorporate 'not to
difficult' problems in my classroom to challenge the students.
Hobby's include (if allowed by my family :-))
in more or less chronological order: Origami, Fractals, Ray-Tracing and
occasionally making a wooden 3-D puzzle.
Finally it's a good thing the recent primality
proving algorithm in P is quite easy to follow, because ECPP is still way
beyond my scope. Will try to catch up though.
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