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Publications

Books

 

· Advanced Calculus: A Transition to Analysis, Elsevier Pub. Co., Jan, 2010.

·  Elements of Number Theory, Academic Press Pub. Co., Dec. 1998.

·  A First Course of Collegiate Mathematics, Krieger Pub. Co., Jan. 1994.

·  Solving Math Problems in BASIC, TAB Books Pub. Co., Oct. 1983.

·  The FORTRAN Cookbook, TAB Books Pub. Co., Oct. 1980.



 

Articles

 

· “Four Ways to Skin a Definite Integral,” The College Math J., March, 2010, 134-144.

· “Introducing Euler’s Constant into the Calculus Classroom,”, Proceedings Intellectbase International, Las Vegas, NV, Dec. 2009.

· “Also Solved by Paul Bruckman,” an interview posted on the webpage of PME Math Honor Society, Dec., 2009.

· “A Survey of Euler’s Constant,” Mathematics Magazine, Oct. 2009, 255-265.

· “Sums of Simple Rearrangements of the Alternating Harmonic Series,” The Math. Gazette, (to appear).

·  "Pairs of Divergent Sequences whose Differences Converge," Pi Mu Epsilon Journal, Fall, 2009, 21-32.

·  "Some Half Row Sums in Pascal's Triangle via Laplace Transforms," College Math Journal, May 2007. 205-209.

·  "The Bank Shot in Billiards," J. Rec. Math.,, 2004-2005. 255-258.

·  "Using Pi in Cryptology," Math. and Comp. Ed., Winter 2005. 56-61.

·  "Programming Some Partitions," Pi Mu Epsilon Journal, Spring 2006. 201-206.

·  "On Enlarging the Focal Point of a Parabola," Math. Teacher, May, 2005. 594-598.

·  "Pattern Busting," Math. Teacher, Nov. 2004. 254-259.

·  "Cryptography: Its History and its Mathematics," Ohio J. of School Math., Spring, 2003. 29-36.

·  "Column Integration and Series Representation," The College Math. J., March, 2003. 144-148.

·  "On an Application of Bernoulli's Inequality," Math. and Comp. Ed., Spring, 2003. 234-235.

·  "A Property of Quadrilaterals," The College Math. J., Sept. 2001. 292-294.

·  "The Pentagon and other Undergraduate Mathematics Journals," Proceedings of History of Undergraduate Mathematics in America conference, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY, June 21-24, 2001. 311-318.

·  "Recursive Powers of the Imaginary I," Ohio J. of School Math., Spring, 2001. 48-54.

·  "On a Symmetric Function of the Primitive Powers of Primes," Missouri J. of Math. Sciences, Spring, 2001. 75-79.

·  "Pascal's Triangle and the Generalized Koch Snowflakes," Math. and Comp. Ed., Vol. 34, Fall, 2000. 245-254.

·  "Number Theory in the High School Classroom," Ohio J. of School Math., Spring, 1999, Npo. 40. 24-30.

·  "Euler's Function in Residue Classes," Ramanujan Journal, Summer, 1998. 2, 7-20.

·  "Archimedes' Quadrature of the Parabola Revisited," Math. Magazine, April, 1998. 123-130.

·  "Cubics, Chaos, and Newton's Method," The Mathematical Gazette, Nov., 1997. 403-408.

·  "Residues III - Congruences to General Composite Moduli," Missouri J. of Math. Sciences,, Spring 1997. 72-78.

·  "Residues II - Congruences Modulo Powers of 2," Missouri J. of Math. Sciences, Winter, 1996. 26-35.

·  "A Necessary and Sufficient Condition for Twin Primes," Missouri J. of Math. Sciences, Fall, 1995. 129-131.

·  "Cubic and Quartic Residues Modulo a Prime," Missouri J. of Math. Sciences, Vol. 7, Spring, 1995. 24-31.

·  "A Nonrecursive Approach to Programming the Parenthesize Function," Math. and Comp. Ed., Vol. 29, Winter, 1995. 70-76.

·  "The School Bus and the Mud Puddles - An Application of the Inclusion-Exclusion Theorem," QUANTUM, Jan.-Feb., 1995. 24-29.

·  "An Observation Regarding the Equation f(x)=n," The College Math. J., Sept., 1995. 35-40.

·  "Some Geometric Properties of Σ1/(n(n+1))," Math. and Comp. Ed., Winter, 1993. 15-20.

·  "Proof Without Words," Mathematics Magazine, June, 1993. 179.

·  "A Rapidly Converging Recursive Approach to Pi," Mathematics Teacher, Febuary, 1993. 121-124.

·  "An Application of Calculus to Number Theory," Math. and Comp. Ed., Spring, 1992. 125-128.

·  "An Infinite Product Approach to Vieta's Formula," Math. and Comp. Ed., Vol. 23, Winter, 1989. 36-38.

·  "Ratios of Generalized Fibonacci Sequences," The Fibonacci Quarterly, Vol. 25, May, 1987. 137-143.

·  "Classroom Exercises on Areas Under Some Interesting Curves," School Science and Math., Vol. 87, Feb., 1987. 88-99.

·  "On a Relationship Between the Modified Euler Method and e," Inter. J. of Math. and Math. Sciences, Vol. 8, 1985. 183-187.

·  "More on Generalized H-Base," Math. and Comp. Ed., Vol. 17, Fall, 1983. 216-218.

·  "On the Beauty of Mathematics as Exemplified by a Problem in Combinatorics," Math. and Comp. Ed., Vol. 16, 1982. 49-53.

·  "The Digital Root Function," Two-Year College Mathematics Readings (MAA), 1982. 96-103.

·  "On the Monotonicity of a Class of Exponential Sequences," American Math. Monthly, Vol. 88, May, 1981. 341-344.

·  "Density Points of Cantor Sets," Math. and Comp. Ed., Spring, 1981. 113-115.

·  "The Lebesgue Decomposition for Elements in a Topological Group," Intl. J. of Math. and Math. Sciences, Vol. 3, 1980. 801-808.

·  "Differentiable Points of the Generalized Cantor Function," Rocky Mt. J. of Math., Spring, 1979. 239-249.

·  "A Coin Game," The Two-Year College Math Journal (MAA), Sept., 1977. 244-246.

·  "A Lebesgue Decomposition for Vector-Valued Additive Set Functions Defined on a Lattice," Canadian J. of Math., Vol. 29, 1977. 295-298.

·  "Idempotent Endomorphisms on Standard Threads," Semigroup Forum, Vol. 11, 1975. 14-21.

·  "Another Euclidean Geometry," Mathematics Magazine, May, 1974. 125-132.

·  "Orders of Infinity of Fibonacci Related Sequences," Journal of Undergraduate Math., Sept., 1970. 63-68.

 

Miscellaneous

 

·  "Number Theory Crossword Puzzle," Math Horizons, November 2006. 22-23

·  "A Differential Equations Crossword Puzzle," Math Horizons, November 2005. 30-31.

·  "Digital Roots of Euler Numbers," Abstract In SIGSAM Bulletin Communications In Computer Algebra, March, 2005. p. 18

·  "Analysis Word Search," Math Horizons, Apr. 2004. p.35.

·  "Maternity," (poem by Robert Service). The Mathematical Intelligencer, Vol. 10, Summer, 1988. 62.

·  "Continued Fractions," Encyclopedia of Mathematics Education, Grinstein, L. and Lipsey, S., ed., RoutledgeFalmer, New York, 2001. 149-151.

·  "Continuity," Encyclopedia of Mathematics Education, Grinstein,L. and Lipsey, S., ed., RoutledgeFalmer, New York, 2001. 151-152.




 

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