Math Team Competes at Princeton this Weekend

Math Team Competes at Princeton this Weekend

<p><span style="caret-color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma; text-size-adjust: auto;">Mr. Brian Sterr shares that this past Saturday (11/17), the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><strong style="caret-color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma; text-size-adjust: auto;">NYC Math Team</strong><span style="caret-color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>came in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><strong style="caret-color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma; text-size-adjust: auto;">4th place<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong><span style="caret-color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma; text-size-adjust: auto;">overall at the Princeton University Math Competition (PUMaC). The students on the team of eight are all from Stuyvesant. They were led by Stuyvesant Math Team captains<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><strong style="caret-color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma; text-size-adjust: auto;">Milan Haiman</strong><span style="caret-color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>('19) and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><strong style="caret-color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma; text-size-adjust: auto;">Matthew Kendall</strong><span style="caret-color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>('19) and included: </span><strong style="caret-color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma; text-size-adjust: auto;">Robin Han</strong><span style="caret-color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>('19),<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><strong style="caret-color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma; text-size-adjust: auto;">Akash Das</strong><span style="caret-color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>('20), </span><strong style="caret-color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma; text-size-adjust: auto;">Kimi Sun</strong><span style="caret-color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma; text-size-adjust: auto;"> ('20), </span><strong style="caret-color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma; text-size-adjust: auto;">Ethan Joo</strong><span style="caret-color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma; text-size-adjust: auto;"> ('21), </span><strong style="caret-color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma; text-size-adjust: auto;">Max Vaysburd</strong><span style="caret-color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma; text-size-adjust: auto;"> ('21), and </span><strong style="caret-color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma; text-size-adjust: auto;">Rishabh Das</strong><span style="caret-color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>('22). Their team came in 2nd place in the proof-writing portion of the competition, after submitting a total of 170 pages of solutions, written over the span of one week. Twelve other Stuyvesant students were members of the other two New York City teams at the competition. (photo courtesy of Mr. Sterr)</span></p> <p><span style="caret-color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br/></span></p>