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  Stonehill College
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   North Easton, MA 02357
  


  Shai Simonson

Professor of Computer Science

My Books:

Looking for Math in All the Wrong Places     (Stonehill News)
The ACL Guidebook - A Patient's Point of View
Rediscovering Mathematics


Office: 226-D College Center
Phone: (508) 565 - 1008
Fax: (508) 565 - 1564
e-mail: shai@stonehill.edu

Professional Information

Presentations, Articles, and Research of General Interest

  • Invited Talk at Providence 2015
  • Stonehill Faculty Forum 2015
  • Mathematical Discovery Workshop,  Ida Crown Jewish Academy, August 2013,   UIC Sabbatical 2013-2014
  • Rediscovering Mathematics  2011
  • Java Book with Ralph
  • Technology in the Classroom, Invited Lecture, South Area Solomon Schechter Day School, February 2008.
  • Discovering Mathematics in Unexpected Places - Invited Lecture for the Pi Mu Epsilon (Math Honor Society) Induction, Bridgewater State College,  April 2004
  • Talk in Japan, 2002, on a Combinatorial Card Trick.
  • Our NSF Grant for teaching secondary school teachers Java and OOP.
  • My Hacker Monthly Article on How to Read Mathematics,  With Comments by the Illustrator
  • Paulo Porta version of my Pythagoras' Theorem Proofs.
  • Hebrew University in Jerusalem Sabbatical, 1998-1999.  We lived in a small development town in the Judean desert between Jerusalem and Jericho.   Here is the monthly journal of our year in Israel, online due to popular demand.
  • For Historians of Jewish Mathematicians:  Here is an electronic version of the Hebrew half of Lange's translation of Ralbag's Maaseh Hoshev  Note:  This was copied and typed by hand from the original, and not scanned.

    • Courses and Class Schedule

    Fall 2022:

    Office Hours : MW 11:00 - 12:00 and 1:00 - 2:00, or by appointment


    Spring 2023:
    Office Hours: MW 11:00-12:00, 2:15-4:00 , or by appointment

    Other course links:

    History of Mathematical Ingenuity
    Mathematical Reasoning for Education Majors
    Mathematical Experiments in Computer Science
    How Computers Work
    Computer Architecture
    CLO
    Algorithms
    Theory of Computation
    Discrete Math I
    Discrete Math II

    Personal

    My wife Andrea is an audiologist who used to work at MIT and now at The Learning center for the Deaf


    My kids in North Dakota in 2006:   Zosh (age 14), Yair (age 12), and Yona (age 8).

     

    My Pictures and Videos

    Kids with their Halff Cousins_2004_and_2007
    Kids with their Strauss Cousins
    Me on Mount Ranier  (Mount Adams in Background)
    Me with Dimitri on Rainier
    Google Photo Albums
    Baby Video-1959
    Baby Video-1962

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    Romney-Gingrich Version
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    Erika Miklosa
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    John Holiday -Countertenor
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    Would You
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    And She Was
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