- Paul Zeitz
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Paul Zeitz (born
5 July 1958 ) is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at theUniversity of San Francisco . He is the author of "The Art and Craft of Problem Solving ", and a co-author of "Statistical Explorations with Excel ".Biography
In 1974 Paul Zeitz won the USA Mathematical Olympiad (USAMO) and was a member of the first American team to participate in the
International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO). The following year he graduated fromStuyvesant High School . [cite web |url=http://www.usfca.edu/usfnews/02/03.05.02/fp5.html |title=Professor Teaches Passion for Math |date=2002-03-05 |accessdate=2007-10-31]He earned a Westinghouse Scholarship and was graduated from Harvard College in 1981.
Since 1985, he has composed and edited problems for several national math contests, including the USAMO. He has helped train several American IMO teams, most notably the 1994 "Dream Team", the only team from any country to ever score a perfect 252 in the Olympiad.
Zeitz founded the
Bay Area Math Meet in 1994 and co-founded theBay Area Mathematical Olympiad in 1999. In 1999 he wrote "The Art and Craft of Problem Solving " ISBN 0-471-13571-2, a popular book onproblem solving .References
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