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Home | News | Math Puzzle by Honorary Fellow Henk Tijms in New York Times
News | May 12, 2015

Math Puzzle by Honorary Fellow Henk Tijms in New York Times

TI Honorary fellow Henk Tijms created another math puzzle ‘Boys and Girls in New Clothes’ that is published in the New York Times ‘Numberplay’ section. The puzzles, which are inspired by many sources and are reported by Gary Antonick, are generally mathematical or logical problems. Antonick is a visiting scholar at Stanford University, where he studies mathematical problem solving.

Can you solve this New York Times math puzzle ‘Boys and Girls in New Clothes’? Henk Tijms is emeritus professor econometrics (VU University Amsterdam) and honorary fellow of TI. Earlier this year he contributed to Gary Antonick’s blog on the NYT the probability puzzle “Dropping Balls into Bins”, which problem might be of some interest to financial mathematics.