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Papers Read to Professional Societies

 

· “A Short Bio of Several Extraordinary Mathematicians,” Spring meeting, Ohio Section MAA, Kent State University, April 2010.

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

· “The Sum of a Common Series from Calculus,” Fall meeting, Ohio Section MAA, Kenyon College, Oct., 2009.

· “On the Ratios of Products of Primes,” Spring meeting, Ohio Section MAA, Bowling Green University, April 2009.

· “A Combinatorial Identity via Arc Tan(x),” Fall meeting, Ohio Section MAA, Capital University, Oct., 2008.

· “J.W.L. Glaisher and some Identities Involving Euler’s Constant,” Spring meeting, Ohio Section MAA, Marietta College, April, 2008.

·  "On the Stieltjes Constants," Fall meeting Ohio Section MAA, Wittenberg University, October 2007

·  "A Tantalizing Trek Through Elementary Number Theory," Invited address Spring meeting, Ohio Section MAA, Shawnee State Univ., April, 2007.

·  "Do You Know the Constant L=2.622...?", Fall meeting, Ohio Section MAA, Muskingum College, Oct. 2006.

·  "The Solution to the Bill Benz Problem," Spring Meeting , Ohio Section MAA, Univ. of Akron, April 2006.

·  "The Worm Meets Euler," Fall meeting Ohio Section MAA, Ashland Univ, October, 2005.

·  "Are There Really a Lot of Primes?," Spring meeting Ohio Section MAA, Miami Univ., Apr. 2005.

·  "The Digital Roots of Euler Numbers," Poster Session, ECCAD, Ashland Univ., Mar. 2005.

·  "Pattern Busters," (Invited Address) Fall meeting Ohio Section MAA, John Carroll Univ., Oct. 2004.

·  "The Intersection of Hilbert and Fibonacci," Spring meeting Ohio Section MAA, Univ. of Cincinnati, April 2004.

·  "Constructing Regular Pentagons," Fall meeting Ohio Section MAA, Ohio Northern Univ., 2003.

·  "Cryptography: It's History and its Mathematics," Fall meeting Ohio Council of Teachers of Mathematics," Cincinnati, OH, Oct., 2002.

·  "How a Couple of Crazies Tried to Outfox the Great Whoosie," Spring meeting Ohio Section MAA, Xavier Univ., 2002.

·  "The Pentagon and other Undergraduate Mathematics Journals," History of Undergraduate Mathematics in America, West Point, NY, 2001.

·  "On an Application of Bernoulli's Inequality," Spring meeting Ohio Section MAA, Wittenberg Univ., 2000.

·  "The Sequence of Powers of the Imaginary I," Fall meeting Ohio Section MAA, Wittenberg Univ., 2000.

·  "Perrin Pseudoprimes and Recurrance Relations," Fall meeting Ohio Section MAA, College of Wooster, 1999.

·  "Number Theory in the High School Classroom," Fall meeting Ohio Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Akron, Oct., 1998.

·  "The Mathematics of Edgar Allen Poe," Fall meeting Ohio Section MAA, Columbus State Univ., Oct., 1998.

·  "What's the Difference Between Euler Integers and Euler Numbers," Spring meeting Ohio Section MAA, John Carroll Univ., April, 1998.

·  "Pascal's Triangle and Generalized Koch Snowflakes," Fall meeting Ohio Section MAA, Shawnee State Univ., Oct., 1997.

·  "On a Equation of G.H. Hardy," Spring meeting Ohio Section MAA, Youngstown State Univ., April, 1997.

·  "Some Old and New Results in Number Theory," Univ. of Akron, Mathematics Colloquia, Feb., 1997.

·  "Euler's Function in Residue Classes," Fall meeting Ohio Section MAA, Denison Univ., Oct., 1996.

·  "Cubic and Quartic Residues Modulo a Prime," Spring meeting Ohio Section MAA, Ohio State Univ., April, 1995.

·  "The Euler Integers," Fall meeting Ohio Section MAA, Ohio Northern Univ., Oct., 1993.

·  "Programming a Non-Associative Product," Spring meeting Ohio Academy of Science, Columbus, OH, April, 1991.

·  "Programming Some Partitions," Spring meeting Ohio Section MAA, Cincinnati, April, 1990.

·  "Ratios of Generalized Fibonacci Sequences," Spring meeting Ohio Section MAA, Univ. of Akron, April, 1990.

·  "On a Relationship Between the Modified Euler Method and e," Spring meeting Intermountain Section MAA, Salt Lake City, UT, April, 1983.

·  "On the Monotonicity of a Class of Exponential Sequences," Fall meeting Ohio Section MAA, College of Wooster, Oct., 1979.

·  "On the Monotonicity of a Class of Exponential Sequences," Spring meeting Intermountain Section MAA, Pocatello, ID, April, 1979.

·  "Differentiable Points of the Generalized Cantor Function," National meeting American Mathematics Society, San Antonio TX, Jan., 1976.

·  "Generalized Cantor Sets and Functions," Bowling Green State Univ. Mathematics Colloquia, Bowling Green, OH, 1975.

·  "Differentiable Points of the Generalized Cantor Function," Spring meeting Southwest Section MAA, Glendale, AZ, April, 1975.

·  "Lebesgue Decompositions of Vector-Valued Additive Set Functions," National meeting American Mathematics Society, San Francisco, CA, Jan., 1974.




 

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