My name is Mogens Lemvig Hansen. Here I am with my wife, Lily Yen, and our children, Kristian, Justine, and Nikolaj. We all live in North Burnaby which is a suburb of Vancouver on the Pacific coast of Canada, if you are from out-of-town.

I tutor mathematics and physics in small classes for a living. Lily’s work life is more complicated: She teaches with me in our tutoring business, she teaches at Capilano University, and she pursues her research interests as Adjunct Professor at Simon Fraser University. Moreover, we are editors of the Skoliad section of the periodical Crux Mathematicorum published by the Canadian Mathematical Society.

I’m active in the Danish Lutheran Church here. I have been webmaster since 2000, and when the church published a new hymnal of English translations of Danish hymns, I was heavily involved typing the music and being the TeXpert in residence.

I am also co-captain in our local Block Watch group. The fancy title implies that I get to deliver the quarterly newsletter to my neighbours.

I have had great fun translating a few Danish hymns:

1. Do not despise the days of small things! by Grundtvig.
2. O Jesus, source of love and care by Thomas Kingo.
3. Are you downhearted, dearest friend by Grundtvig.
4. It is delightful to share a road by Grundtvig.
5. Wake up and let your strings be sounding by Thomas Kingo.
6. The last stanza of The country lies in deep repose by B.S. Ingemann.

I always did like verse. I was therefore delighted to find Hans Christian Andersen’s proof of Pythagoras’s theorem.

You can contact me by phone at 604.320.0809 or by using this form:

Last revised March 12th, 2011.