As I near the end of my PhD, my advisor Dr David Kahle submitted my information to the Mathematics Genealogy Project. The MGP tracks academic lineages through dissertation advisors — like a doctoral family tree. Academic lineage via the Mathematics Genealogy Project. It was surprisingly cool to explore the academic lineage I come from. With some help from ChatGPT, I put together a script to scrape and visualize my genealogy.

As I mentioned in a previous blog post, my family and I have found different activities to do as all our other activities are on hold due to the COVID-19 lockdown. In that post, I looked at first player’s strategy when spinning the big wheel prior to the showcase showdown. In this post, I’ll explore the rarely won game, Pay the Rent Pay The Rent Pay The Rent Pay The Rent is a challenging game.