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About Oscar
Oscar
Seurat* is a Polish born, American mathematician and author (PhD from
New York University and, effectively, Erdös
No. 2)
who worked for more than a decade at prominent Wall Street institutions
like
Goldman Sachs, Credit-Suisse Securities, and Royal Bank of Canada. The
main focus of his work involved mathematical and software aspects of
statistical arbitrage, program trading and securities lending. He has
also worked at the New York Stock Exchange at their offices in Paris
and New York on integration of certain high-frequency data management
tools. Recently, Oscar taught undergraduate mathematics and computer
science at Fordham University, Framingham State University and
Northeastern University. Always fascinated with
bird’s eye views, and the
instinctive fear high altitudes instill in us, he started his aviation
adventure with the Accelerated Free Fall skydiving course in Perris,
California, obtaining his A license in 2000, and performing the total
of 61 jumps. In 2004, after a year and three months of committed work,
he obtained a private pilot
license at Teterboro, NJ, and has since logged 900 landings and close
to 400 hours of flight time. This flight time does not include the very
short flights he performed in college as a high jumper when he
reached the personal best of 6 ft and 9.1 in (206cm).
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 The Blind Bidder's Eye, Oscar's second book, appeared in August 2015. It is a magical realism thriller involving a father and his teenage son whose lives spiral into chaos when the boy stumbles across a curious item belonging to an 18th century genius. The novel sends the reader on an exciting, bumpy path through the son’s humorous tribulations at his Manhattan high school, a singular Wall Street business of blind bidding, and the mind of Leonhard Euler (1707-1783), a mathematician historically known to have lost an eye due to mental exertion. Click on the image for a preview. ♦
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 In December of 2013, Oscar published a recreational mathematics book, Sudoku Stories: History, Art and Science in 101 Designer Puzzles. The novelty of the book, written with a co-author Olivier Nicolas, rests upon the contained puzzles' pictorially representing objects rather than being just tables of randomly placed numbers. The 101 designs are accompanied by articles on the related and timely topics. The book comes in two formats: an 8.5'' x 11'' album, and a "pocket" volume 5'' x 8'' in size. Click on the image for a high quality preview. ♦
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Puzzle Book
101
Magical Picture Puzzles and Stories
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Rather
than being just a table of randomly placed
numbers, each puzzle in this book depicts an animal, a symbol or an
object. A captivating
article on the object brings it to life and gives the puzzle its own
special personality. The puzzles are arranged into 14 topical chapters
which start with puzzles on "Animals", "Countries"
and "Environment" and end with those on "Money",
"Space" and "Warfare".
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| Pocket Edition |  |
Album Edition | ||||
| Size: | 5'' x 8'' | Size: | 8.5'' x 11'' | |||
| Cover: | Full Color | Cover: | Full Color | |||
| Interior: | B&W | Interior: | Full Color | |||
| Publisher: | Quadrature Books | Publisher: | Quadrature Books | |||
| ISBN-13: | 978-0991323524 | ISBN-13: | 978-0991323517 | |||
| ISBN-10: | 0991323521 | ISBN-10: | 0991323513 | |||
| LOOK INSIDE! | LOOK INSIDE! | |||||
| Where to Buy | Where to Buy | |||||
| @ Amazon.com |
B&W: @ Amazon.com |
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| @Barnes&Noble |
Full Color: Currently Unavailable |
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Euler Thriller
"'The Blind Bidder's Eye' is a captivating and thought-provoking thriller filled with risks and possibilities. It is an adventure worth diving into."
"An inventive puzzle of a novel by a writer of singular vision."
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The
Blind Bidder's Eye
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In this magical realism thriller involving a father and his teenage son,
the couple's lives spiral into chaos when the boy stumbles across a
curious item belonging to an 18th century genius, Leonhard
Euler. Unexpectedly, the resulting flashes of brilliance
experienced by the boy bring few benefits in school and lead instead to
a series of mishaps including a disaster at his father's investment
firm. In spite of the misfortunes, the son's flares of ingenuity make the father - a Wall Street executive and a man impressed only by the strength of one’s mind - change his perception of the boy as a weakling and set the two's troubled relationship on a healing course. This change may be coming too late, however; the boy is missing and quite possibly in harm's way ... The novel sends the reader on an exciting, bumpy path through the son's humorous tribulations at his Manhattan high school, a singular Wall Street business of blind bidding, and the mind of Leonhard Euler (1707-1783), a mathematician historically known to have lost an eye due to mental exertion. Click on the image for a preview. † |
Torus Board Games
orus Boards is a collection of games based on flat depictions of
a torus with shiftable multi-colored bands on its surface. The bands are assumed to move in three directions: along the smaller radius, the larger radius, and spirally at an angle of 45 degrees to either of the radii. On the square these motions correspond to three shifts which wrap around the columns, rows, and diagonals. After the square (or torus) has been scrambled, your task is to bring it back to its original state by any combination of the three shifts.
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