The Kilchoer family is from Fribourg, Switzerland. My father, Roger, grew up in the small farming village of Treyvaux (Fribourg), then moved as a young man to the city of Genève where he met my mother Janine.

After their wedding, they decided to travel the world and moved to Quebec for a few years before settling in California. My brother and I were born in California.

When we were children the family moved back to Switzerland, where we lived in Vernier (Genève), Carouge (Genève), Meyrin (Genève), La Roche (Fribourg), and finally Treyvaux (Fribourg), my father’s birthplace, where my parents still live today.

Treyvaux is a small village in the french-speaking part of Switzerland, in farm country (cows are everywhere). It is halfway between the plain of Central Switzerland and the Alps. My immediate family in Switzerland consists of my parents (Roger and Janine), my brother, François, his wife Melinda and their children Brenainn and Brittanie. We see each other once a year (they were all in California at for Christmas in 1996). My brother now lives in Switzerland where he has built a beautiful new house.

I enjoy returning to Switzerland to visit my family and especially my nephew and niece (see picture at left). They are both learning to speak French along with English and Tagalog. My parents tell me that they are the smartest children they've ever seen, and I’m sure their opinions are absolutely impartial. My nephew's birthday is 2 september and my niece’s birthday is 14 april. Feel free to sing happy birthday for them on those dates. They both live in a small village on the borders of the Lac de la Gruyère with their parents.

My nephew and niece both enjoy the pursuits typical of young geniuses of their age. Brenainn does fencing and judo while Brittanie does skating as well as judo. They’re both progressing admirably at piano. At their next winter audition (December 2000),they are playing together the minuet section of Mozart's “Eine Kleine Nacht Musik” and Brittanie has decided that she wants to play Haydn’s “German Dance” in F major.

I went to college at Collège St-Michel in Fribourg, Switzerland, from which I graduated with a Baccalauréat in Classical Studies (Latin and Greek). I then attended the Université de Fribourg for a year, studying biology.

I moved back to the United States in 1981, to Boise, Idaho, where I lived until 1985. I studied at Boise State University from which I received a Bachelor's of Science Degree, with a major in mathematics. I chose Boise State University because I know one of the members of the history faculty, Peter Buehler, an old family friend, who helped me get used to life in the United States. I owe him a debt of gratitude that I hope to repay some day.

After graduation, I moved to California and have lived in Costa Mesa for 11 years. My first “real” job after graduation was for a rare coin investment firm in Costa Mesa. I was a programmer/system administrator there for seven years. In subsequent jobs I was employed (always in the computer field) by a medical company in Newport Beach, a payroll tax company in Fountain Valley, and a software company (building software to manager alarm systems) in Irvine. In my spare time I am a member of the Amnesty International Group in Irvine, California. Amnesty International is a human rights organization with four main goals: release all prisoners of conscience (people confined because of their beliefs, ethnic origin, sex, colour or language, who have not used or called for violence); give all prisoners whose case have a political aspect a fair trial within a reasonable time; abolish torture, cruel treatment of prisoners, and executions in all cases; end all extrajudicial executions and “disappearances”.

I enjoy listening to music (all kinds of music, but especially alternative rock and classical music). I also enjoy the cinema and go to the movies as often as I can. In 1997 I decided to do some exercising and ran in the Los Angeles Marathon, which I completed without having to drag myself across the finish line.

In 1998 I met Elizabeth and with her encouragement (and prodding) I have decided to learn ballroom dancing. I am slowly making progress but will never be as talented as her.

My birthday is 21 August, which makes me a Leo. As you doubtless know, Leo is the best zodiac sign. Leos are fun-loving, intelligent, generous, spontaneous, forgiving and modest,e^iπ + 1 = 0 Euler's equation all qualities which I embody in a degree that it would be unbecoming of me to state exactly. My favourite colour is red. My favourite mathematician is Leonhard Euler (1707 - 1783), the Swiss scientist who came up with my favourite mathematical formula in 1748.