Further to my recent message. I currently have a student who came 9th in the Putnam at age 16. He'a all of 17 now. We hope to write a few joint papers with 70-year age difference betwixt the authors. R. On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, Henry Gould wrote:

You got ne beat! . . . I will be 76 years young on August 26. I am still teaching full time at West Virginia University and am about to start my 47-th year as a professor of mathematics here. I know there are some SeqFans older than you, but the sequence of SeqFans ages is only a finite sequence because n+1 terminates for sure when n is greater than (or greater than or equal to?) 120. I cannot prove that 120 is the best upper bound for this sequence. Is any SeqFan regular near 90? near 100? I have a friend who is 99 and surfs the web, but knows nothing about sequences. WHO is the youngest SeqFan????? Greater than or equal to 16?Speak now or forever hold your peace until your n approaches 120.

H (things taken) W (at a time) Gould