Rebecca Rapoport holds degrees in mathematics from Harvard
University and Michigan State. From her first job out of college,
as one of the pioneers of Harvard's Internet education offerings,
she has been passionate about encouraging her love for matsh in
others. As an early contributor to both retail giant Amazon.com and
Akamai Technologies, the number one firm in cloud computing,
Rapoport played a key role in several elements of the Internet
revolution. She then returned to her first love, education, as an
innovator of new methods to introduce children and adults to the
critically important world of STEAM education as COO of an
enrichment centre dedicated to helping kids explore the creative
side of science, technology, engineering, art, and math, and is
currently developing and teaching innovative maths curricula in the
Boston area. Rapoport is also the co-author of Math Games Lab for
Kids (published by Quarry Books), a book of fun, hands-on maths
activities designed to introduce elementary and middle-school
students to several areas of higher math; and the calendars
Mathematics: Your Daily Epsilon of Math 2021,Mathematics: Your
Daily Epsilon of Math 2020, Mathematics 2019: Your Daily Epsilon of
Math, and The Mathematics Calendar 2018, all published by Rock
Point. She has an Erdos number of 2.
Dean Chung holds a BA in mathematics from Harvard University and a
PhD from the University of Michigan in algebraic combinatorics.
Chung had success on the high-school maths circuit, including an
eighth-place finish at the 1991 USAMO and attending the Math
Olympiad training program. He was also a high scorer at the 1994
Putnam Competition. Chung has wielded mathematics in service of
analysis for Amazon.com, Quadstone, and Vistaprint.com. He
currently works at athenahealth as a software developer and is the
puzzle master of its maths club.
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