Curriculum Vita

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Education

  • University of Notre Dame, B.A. 1960 (mathematics)
  • University of California, Berkeley, M.A. 1962, Ph.D. 1964 (mathematics)

Teaching Experience

  • Benjamin Peirce Instructor, Harvard, 1964-6;
  • Research Associate, Universiteit van Amsterdam, 1966-7;
  • Brown University: Asst. Prof. 1967, Assoc. Prof. 1970, Professor 1973
  • Walter H. Annenberg Professor of the Year 1998, Brown University
  • G. Leonard Baker Visiting Professor of Mathmatics, Yale, Fall 1998
  • Visiting Professor, University of Notre Dame, Fall 2001
  • Visiting Professor, UCLA, Winter 2002

Teaching Awards

  • Danforth (1960) and Woodrow Wilson (1959) Fellowships;
  • Senior Teaching Citation, 1976 (chosen by the Brown senior class);
  • Lester Ford Award 1978 (for outstanding expository writing);
  • Joseph Priestley Medallion, Dickinson College 1987 (science award)
  • Bray Award for Teaching Excellence in Sciences, Brown 1993 (faculty);
  • Mathematical Association of America Northeastern Section Award 1995;
  • MAA National Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics 1996 (one of three awarded annually).
  • Doctor of Science, honoris causa, Fairfield University, 1998
  • Pew Scholar, Carnegie Foundation Teaching Academy, 1999
  • Carnegie Fellow, Carnegie Foundation, 1999-2000
  • Doctor of Science, Honoris Causa, Rhode Island College, 2001

Publications Related to Teaching

  • International Congress of Mathematicians, Helsinki, 1978, invited address in the section on Pedagogy, Computer Animation and the Geometry of Surfaces in 3- and 4-Space (the first such presentation to involve graphics).
  • Linear Algebra Through Geometry (with John Wermer), Springer-Verlag 1983, revised and expanded second edition 1991
  • EDGE-The Educational Differential Geometry Environment, (with Richard Schwartz) 1987 (reworking and expansion of a student final project)
  • Student-Generated Interactive Software for Calculus of Surfaces in a Workstation Laboratory, (co-authored with four students) UME Trends 1990
  • Beyond the Third Dimension, Scientific American Library 1990, 1996
  • Nine other articles on teaching (among 85 bibliography items)

Service

  • Assoc. Editorships:
    • Mathematics Magazine 1978-81,
    • Amer. Math. Monthly 1982-85,
    • Geometriae Dedicata 1986-95,
    • Communications in Visual Mathematics, 1996-;
  • Acting Dean of Student Affairs, Brown, 1970-71;
  • National Committee: Teaching Assistants and Part-Time Instructors;
  • Board Memberships:
    • Society for Values in Higher Education,
    • CommonCause of RI,
    • Mathematical Association of America, President, 1999-2000