New Jersey math competition honors Seton Hall professor

SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. - More than 150 students from 22 high schools in New Jersey participated in a mathematics competition, named for the late Joseph W. Andrushkiw, professor and past chairman of the mathematics department at Seton Hall University.

The winner with the highest score this year was Paul Hsu, a student at Hillsborough High School. He also helped his team achieve the highest over-all score in the grueling 90-minute competition, which required solving problems in algebra, geometry, probability, combinatorics, number theory and other topics in mathematics.

The supervisor and coach of the winning team was Maria Haftkovych-Szijj, head of the mathematics department at Hillsborough High School.

The Joseph W. Andrushkiw mathematics competition is sponsored by the mathematics and computer science department of Seton Hall University. The competition has been held annually since 1985 and has attracted many students from high schools in the state. Prizes are awarded to three students and high schools teams that win in the competition.

Jeffery Greenstein of Livingston High School and Robert DelGreco of Fairlawn High School were the winners of the second and third individual prize, and the teams from Fairlawn and Livingston high schools won the second and third places, respectively. The awards were presented by Dr. Roman Andrushkiw, professor of mathematics of the New Jersey Institute of Technology, son of the man in whose honor the competition is held.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, February 4, 1996, No. 5, Vol. LXIV

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