Tehiyah Day School Mathematics Contest
Tehiyah Day School Mathematics Contest 
Hello!
I am Alexander Givental.
I work at the mathematics department of UC Berkeley.
My e-mail address is:
givental@math.berkeley.edu
My career as a mathematician began when I was in middle
school and first tried to solve challenging math problems.
This way I learned that mathematics is a deep and beautiful
science. Here I will try to share with you my
love for this subject.
To make problem solving more attractive, I decided to organize
it in the form of a take-home contest.
Every two weeks I will post to this web-page
two new problems and my solutions to the previous two problems.
Please e-mail me your solutions before the end of the two-week
period, and I will e-mail you my comments after the end of
the period. In the end of the semester several best problem solvers will be
awarded valuable prizes - books!
Room of Glory Room of Gossip
Please remember that the contest is not a test that you can fail but a challenge that you can meet. In principle it is similar to genuine mathematical research. The main difference is that solving a contest problem may require from several hours to several days of thinking while solving a research problem may take months or even years. Even when we don't solve a problem, we can learn a lot from the process, and learn to enjoy it.