Indeed. My NPL nom is Thane. The last two times I saw Noam Elkies, he was working on puzzles from The Enigma (the flagship NPL publication). Plenty of math people in this party. Come on over! http://www.puzzlers.org/dokuwiki/doku.php On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 9:09 PM, Dan Asimov <dasimov@earthlink.net> wrote:
Hans,
Everyone joining the NPL is invited to choose a pseudonym -- pretty much anything that hasn't been used before. Many decide to base theirs on their actual names. So it's very likely that Emmo W. was just the NPL pseudonym of Melvin O. Wellman = M.O.W., initially speaking.
--Dan
On 2013-04-21, at 8:01 PM, Hans Havermann wrote:
It occurred to me that Emmo W. might also have been a column name with entries by various contributors. I've just emailed the current editor of The Enigma, hopefully for enlightenment.
I haven't yet heard from The Enigma editor but I have decided that Emmo W. is in fact a nom de plume. Apparently this was common practice for the puzzlers. I've written a short bio of Melvin Wellman to which I can add further information as it becomes available.
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