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Tanya Khovanova (tanyakh@yahoo.com) is a lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a freelance mathematician. She received her Ph.D. in Mathematics from the Moscow State University in 1988. Her current research interests lie in recreational mathematics including puzzles, magic tricks, combinatorics, number theory, geometry, and probability theory. Her website tanyakhovanova.com connects to her highly popular math blog and readers might also enjoy her Number Gossip website, numbergossip.com.