THE UPS AND DOWNS OF MY STUDIES: TINY DROPS FLOAT TO RIVER

Hung-ping Tsao (2026). The Ups and Downs of my Studies: Tiny Drops Float to River. In: "Evolutionary Progress in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM)", Lawrence K. Wang and Hung-ping Tsao (editors). Volume 8, Number 7D, July 2026; 27 pages. Lenox Institute Press MA, USA. .... ABSTRACT: Hung-ping Tsao has been a mathematician, a university professor, and an assistant actuary, serving private firms and universities in the United States and Taiwan for 30+ years. His research has been in the areas of college mathematics, actuarial mathematics, management mathematics, combinatorial number theory and Sudoku puzzle solving. Dr. Tsao is the author of 10+ books and over 70 academic publications. Among all of the above accomplishments, he is most proud of solving manually in the total of ten hours the hardest Sudoku posted online by Arto Inkala in early July of 2012 and introducing an easy way to play Sudoku in 2019. He earned his BS degree from National Taiwan Normal University, his first MS degree from National Tsinghua University in Taiwan, his second MS degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and his PhD degree from the University of Illinois, USA.