Prithwijit De

1. Personal Information

• Name: Prithwijit De
• Email 1: prithwijit@hbcse.tifr.res.in
• Email 2: de.prithwijit@gmail.com

2. Professional Experience

• April, 2010 - : Fellow (E), Mathematics Olympiad Cell, Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, TIFR, Mumbai.

3. Educational Information

• Ph.D in Statistics from University College Cork, Ireland.
• M.Stat from Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.
• B.Stat (Hons) from Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.

4. Publication(s)

• The relationship between magmatic tiling,  uid  ow and crystal fraction.
  

      K.F.Mulchrone, S. Grogan, P. De
     Journal of Structural Geology, Volume 27, pp. 179-197.

• Application of clustering to the analysis of high-dimensional cardiac PET scans with [C-11] MHED and CGP and[O-15] Water.
  

      M.Kelly, J. Kirrane, M. Byrtek, P.De, K.O'Sullivan, J. O'Sullivan, J. Link, J. Caldwell, F. O'Sullivan
      Conference on Applied Statistics in Ireland, 2003.

• Assessing information content of a stack of polarized microphotographs of quartz thin sections.
  

      P. De, K. Roy Choudhury
      Conference on Applied Statistics in Ireland, 2006.

• Statistical Analysis of Microphotographic Image Data in Geology.
  

      K. Roy Choudhury, F. O'Sullivan, P.De, P.Meere, K. Mulchrone
      Conference on Applied Statistics in Ireland, 2001.

• From Immersion Heaters to Buoys.

      Prithwijit De, Des MacHale
      Mathematical Gazette (U.K), pp.519-521, November, 2007.

• Radii of touching circles: a trigonometric solution.
  

      Prithwijit De
      Mathematical Spectrum (U.K), pp. 70-74, January, 2009.

• A pair of insoluble Diophantine equations arising from an equilateral triangle.
  

      Prithwijit De
      Mathematical Gazette (U.K), July, 2008.

• Curious properties of the circumcircle and incircle of an equilateral tri- angle.
  

      Prithwijit De
      Mathematical Spectrum (U.K), pp.32-36, September, 2008.

• A Farmer and a Fence.
  

      Prithwijit De
      Mathematical Spectrum (U.K), pp.75-82, January, 2010.

• Caught up in a Box.
  

      Prithwijit De
      Mathematical Spectrum (U.K), pp. 115-121, May, 2010.

• A Pouring Problem.
  

      Prithwijit De
      Mathematical Spectrum (U.K), pp. 3-5, September, 2010.

• Message in a Bottle.
  

      Prithwijit De
      Mathematical Spectrum (U.K), pp. 50-52, January, 2011.

• Height of Difficulty.

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      Due to appear in Mathematical Spectrum (U.K)

• Always a Cube.

      Prithwijit De
      Due to appear in Mathematical Spectrum (U.K)

• A Sweetseller’s Trick.

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       Due to appear in At Right Angles (India)


5. Problem Solving

• American Mathematical Monthly

      – 11511 (pp.69-70, January, 2012)
      – 11492 (pp.850, November, 2011)
      - 11486 (pp.849-850, November, 2011)
      - 11457 (pp.378,April, 2011)
      - 11443 (pp.278,March, 2011)
      - 11386 (pp.463-444,May, 2010)
      - 11385 (pp.285,March, 2010)
      - 11357 (pp.184-185, February, 2010)
      - 11306 (pp.88-89,Jan, 2009)
      - 11301 (pp.85-86,Jan, 2009)
      - 11289 (pp.764,Oct, 2008)
      - 11275 (pp.670-671,Sept, 2008)
      - 11245 (pp.467-468,May, 2008)
      - 11263 (pp.371-372,April, 2008)
      - 11240 (pp.172,February, 2008)
      - 11228 (pp.77,January, 2008)
      - 11177 (pp.838,November, 2007)
      - 11210 (pp.749,October, 2007)
      - 11211 (pp.749-750,October, 2007)
      - 11225 (pp.750,October, 2007)
      - 11160 (pp.454,May, 2007)
      - 11168 (pp.456,May, 2007)
      - 10483 (pp.568-569,Jun-Jul, 2006)

•  CRUX Mathematicorum

       – Feb 2011: 3505 (pp.57)
       – Mar 2011: 3514 (pp.117), 3525 (pp.127)     
       – April 2011: 3528 (pp.178-179), 3532 (pp.184-185)

•  Mathematical Re ections {http://awesomemath.org/mathematical-reflections}

       - Mathematical Re ections 4 (2010):
         J163 (pp.1), J167 (pp.6), S164 (pp.11), S168 (pp. 17-18).
       - Mathematical Re ections 1 (2011):
         J175 (pp.1).
       - Mathematical Re ections 2 (2011):
         S181 (pp.8).
       - Mathematical Re ections 3 (2011):
         J188 (pp.2), J191 (pp.5), J192 (pp.6-7), S187 (pp.8), S190 (pp.11).
       - Mathematical Re ections 5 (2011):
         J199 (pp.1), J200 (pp.2), S201 (pp.9).