Last name in Korea, my country of ancestry: much worse than Smith in the U.S., though not as bad as Jorgensen in Denmark, where the government will pay you to change your last name. In school teachers often reversed the order of my names. “I was not too surprised to hear about a Scott/Kim couple,” he wrote. But it was commissioned as an anniversary present for a couple Kim’s Web site is of his first and last names. His appearance is part of a series called Math Encounters, created by Glen Whitney, who quit a hedgeįund job in 2009 to establish the Museum of Mathematics. On East 25th Street between Lexington and Third Avenues.

on Thursday (today) at Engelman Recital Hall, part of the Baruch College Performing Arts Center, Kim will do more than describe them in a lecture and demonstration at 4 and 6:30 p.m. “You can explain them in words, but it’s like describing a dance.” And of course there was theĭan Brown thriller “Angels and Demons.” It had ambigramsĭesigned by Professor John Langdon of Drexel University and deciphered by a character named Professor Robert Langdon (played by Tom Hanks in the movie version). Some tattoo artists advertise that they do ambigrams. Mozart.” Other sites on the Web sell customized ambigrams - type in a word or phrase, and the site does the work. Sure enough, his Web site has ambigrams of artful words like “ onomatopoeia” and names like “ Which upside down is the word ‘wow.’ If you do it artfully, you can turn almost any word into an ambigram.” Words or phrases that read the same backward or forward, like the word “level” - “but with an ambigram, it looks the same in more than one way. Scott Kim Turn your computer upside down.

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