Go figure — Yale mathematician is a TV game show pro By Jim Shelton May 8, 2015 Once again, Yale mathematician Nathan Kaplan has packed up his polynomials and hit the TV game show circuit. Kaplan, a Gibbs Assistant Professor in Mathematics, will be a contestant on the syndicated TV program “Let’s Ask America,” in an episode airing May 8. He participated in the show via Skype from his Dunham Lab office, with a Yale pennant and Pascal’s Triangle — expanding rows of binomial coefficients as visually entertaining as any TV graphic — in the background. The show polls Americans on a variety of topics and asks contestants to predict the responses. “I was the ‘math guy,’” Kaplan explained. “The other contestants were a new mom from Ohio, a fitness model from California, and a Colorado youth pastor
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