Cutting Cakes Carefully

Ted Hill is professor emeritus of mathematics at Georgia Tech, and has held visiting appointments in Costa Rica, Germany (Gauss Professor), Holland (NSF-NATO Fellow), Israel, Italy, and Mexico. He studied at West Point (B.S.), Stanford (M.S.), Göttingen (Fulbright Scholar), and Berkeley (M.A., Ph.D.), and his primary research interests are in mathematical probability, especially optimal-stopping theory, fair-division problems, and Benford’s Law.