Miscellaneous Items

1. Here are knuth's reward checks over the last three decades (1980's, 1990's and 2000's)
      
2. My Erdos Number:
   • - Year 1987: Report number 09 # 87-08. On Regularizing Graphs. Paul Erdos, M. S. Krishnamoorthy. - I did write a paper with Prof. Paul Erdos. Unfortunately, we did not know at the time we wrote our paper that our results were known earlier. Hence we withdrew our publication.
   • - who has Erdos Number 2? Krishnamoorthy, Mukkai S. GOLDBERG, MARK K.
   • From Mathsci.net - Erdos distance calculated from publications reviewed in Math Reviews MR Erdos Number = 3 Mukkai S. Krishnamoorthy coauthored with Joseph E. Flaherty MR1335519 (96b:05141) Joseph E. Flaherty coauthored with David C. Arney MR0799192 David C. Arney coauthored with Paul Erdos1 MR1431944
3. I have enjoyed for the past several years coaching middle school and high school students in mathematics. From 2001 onwards, I have been associated with Albany area Math Circle , a fantastic group of students.
4. I wrote two Tamil poems ( link to first and link to second ) A well known musicologist was kind enough to perform the first song in a private house concert and I have his recordings.
5. My notes on Vedic Mathematics
6. I construct puzzles and develop games mostly as a hobby. Two former colleagues and I have a patent on an electronic music puzzle toy. Here is a y2k puzzle pieces that two of my friends and I made. We sold only one piece so far.This puzzle was done for 175th year celebration of RPI.. This is a clueless crossword for young adults (4th and 5th grade in elementray school) puzzle (to fill in numbers one, two,..., twenty) was done for fun. I did one Sudoku for pan IIT magazine and one resistor problem for RPI Science magazine.
7. My juggling and Pi.
8. During 1997-1999, I was translating Thirukkural (Tamil poems) into English for broadcast in the Tamil Osai segment of WRPI (student run radio station at RPI) . My listener base was shrinking and so, I discontinued after translating around 70 chapters (out of 133 chapters - each chapter has 10 poems).
9. I am asosciated with Pallavi (organization devoted to South Indian Classical Music and Dance) from 1996 in various capacities.