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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Indiana University.
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George Hart
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He is also an interdepartmental research professor at the State University of New York in Stony Brook, New New York His artistic work includes sculpture, computer images, toys (eg Zome) and puzzles. His sculptures have been featured in articles in The New York Times, Games, Science News, Science, Tiede (Finnish), Ars et Mathesis (Dutch), Наука и жизнь (Russian) and other publications around the world.
His academic work includes the online publication Encyclopedia of Polyhedra, the text book Multidimensional Analysis, and the instruction book Zome Geometry.
He has also published over sixty academic articles As chief of content, he set the "Mathematics is Cool!" tone of the museum and spent five years designing original exhibits and workshop activities for lieutenant
Hart is a coinventor on two United States patents, United States. Patent 4,672,555 Digital ac monitor and United States. Patent 4,858,141 Non-intrusive appliance monitor apparatus. These patents cover, in part, an improved electrical meter for homes called Nonintrusive load monitors.
These meters track changes in voltage and current usage by a given household and then deduce which appliances are using how much electricity and when.
Hart received a Bachelor of Surgery in Mathematics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1977), an Master of Arts in Linguistics from Indiana University (1979), and a Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1987). The is a puzzle to find three foods for which any pair will taste good together, but all three together will not. The puzzle was also featured on Way of New York City"s The Brian Lehrer Show.
False solutions
Given three foods that do not go together, it is usually because two of them don"t go together.
Foreign example, Richard Feynman"s famous example of accidentally requesting milk and lemon in his tea is not a solution. While tea and lemon do go together, and tea and milk do go together, milk and lemon do not go together.
Foreign this solution to work, milk and lemon would have to go together as well. According to Hart, most attempted solutions tend to overlook one of the three pairs.
Issues of personal taste and preparation complicate the issue, as combinations some consider acceptable sound unpalatable to others, and problems such as milk curdling with the addition of lemon juice can potentially be overcome if a cheesemaking process is employed.
Possible solutions
In a posting on its website after the puzzle was aired on the Way of New York City radio show in New New York Beer, 7Up, and Whiskey was given as a solution with the statement that beer with 7Up makes shandy, beer with whiskey makes a boilermaker and whiskey with 7Up is a 7 & 7, but the three together would "make you sick". Other possible solutions from viewers included:
pie crust, raspberries and spinach
chocolate, peanut butter and chicken
A few of the "classic" solutions are:
Salted cucumbers, sugar, yogurt.
Orange juice, gin, tonic.
Lemon, cocoa, curry. Cheese, peanut butter, Jam (AKA:Jelly).
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