What people are saying about HCSSiM...
Some recent quotations
"This program was totally worth it! I must say this because I feel there is no better way I could have spent my summer. I have definitely learned + grown more here than in the cumulative past n years, n ≥ 4. Mathematically, I can't remember any length of time when I've learned this much new 'stuff.' Whereas in math class, where I'm usually ahead of the class, here everything is challenging. Even the easiest parts are more difficult than anything I've done before."
Brian Freidin, HCSSiM 2008
“The practice in communicating my ideas and presenting my work will be priceless in any math-related (and many non-math-related) situation I’m in for years to come.”
Tim Reynolds, HCSSiM 2007
"What I found at HCSSiM was a rapid, raw, and wonderful introduction into the purest of mathematics. I learned how much more mathematics was than what one sees in any AP Calculus course. I saw how one could develop an intuitive feel for a problem and then formalize relationships to other schemes to invoke those theorems."
Louis Wasserman, HCSSiM 2006
"There is no doubt that mathematically, I have learned more in these past 6 weeks than I ever have and maybe ever will, in any other six-week period. ... I have also become more engaged in mathematics, and in more areas of mathematics, than I was before I came..."
John Binder, HCSSiM 2005
"And my only wish to HCSSiM is to last another 30 years so I can send my son or daughter here."
Jeff Yeo, HCSSiM 2005
"I can honestly say that I learned more math at HCSSiM than in the past 3 years of high school combined."
Mike Calderbank, HCSSiM 2005
"The people I've met and the experiences I've had here have shown me a whole new side to math and it's really cool!"
Daniel Studenmund, HCSSiM 2003
"This program is a really interesting experience. First, people over here are different from other mathematicians because not all of them are crazy and all of them are smart. Secondly, there is no competition at all and therefore no hatred."
Mikhail Shklyar, HCSSiM 2002
"In one week at HCSSiM, I have learned more math than I did in 2 years in High School."
David Levitt, HCSSiM 2001
"Although math for me didn't really begin here, it is at Hampshire that I find the true meaning of mathematics."
Wing Mui, HCSSiM 2000
HCSSiM in the press
Founder David Kelly gave the 2008 Arnold Ross Lecture.
There is a blurb describing HCSSiM in the book What High Schools Don't Tell You: 300+ Secrets to Make Your Kid Irresistible to Colleges by Senior Year by Elizabeth Wissner-Gross.
The program was mentioned in this article from the July 3, 2005 Boston Globe. (It's near the end of the article.)
In the November 2003 issue of the Notices of the AMS, HCSSiM was featured in the article Supporting a National Treasure by Allyn Jackson. You can also read an addendum to Jackson's piece featured in the February 2004 Notices of the AMS (also a .pdf file) here.
"The trick seems to be making the rounds of the current math community and beyond, thanks to mathematician and magician Art Benjamin, who... then taught the trick at the Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics program3 in 1986. ....3Unpaid advertisement: for more information on this outstanding, intense, and enlightening introduction to mathematical thinking for talented high-school students, contact David Kelly..." from The Best Card Trick by Michael Kleber, in the Winter 2002 Mathematical Intelligencer (Vol. 24 Issue 1, pp. 9-12).
The January 1998 AMS Notices' tribute to Paul Erdos by Joel Spencer contains, at the bottom of p.65, a description of Erdos' 1985 visit to HCSSiM. Here is a .pdf file of that article.
