Expository Writing to Communicate Mathematics
Presenters
Ivars Peterson (Workshop Director), Underwood Dudley, Paul Zorn, and Keith Devlin
Ivars Peterson is Director of Publications for Journals and Communications at the Mathematical Association of America. As an award-winning mathematics writer, he previously worked at Science News for more than 25 years and served as editor of Science News Online and Science News for Kids. His books include The Mathematical Tourist, Islands of Truth, Newton's Clock, The Jungles of Randomness, and Fragments of Infinity: A Kaleidoscope of Math and Art.
Underwood Dudley received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1965 and taught briefly at Ohio State University before accepting a position at DePauw University, where he taught for many years. Now retired, he remains active in the publications program of the Mathematical Association of America and previously served as editor of The College Mathematics Journal (1999-2003). His books include Elementary Number Theory, The Trisectors, Mathematical Cranks, and Is Mathematics Inevitable? A Miscellany.
Paul Zorn is the chair of the Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minn. He is coauthor, with Arnold Ostebee, of Calculus from Graphical, Numerical, and Symbolic Points of View . He served as editor of Mathematics Magazine (1996-2000) and is currently chair of the MAA's Coordinating Council on Publications.
Keith Devlin is the Executive Director of the Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford University and The Math Guy on National Public Radio's Weekend Edition. His most recent book is Solving Crimes with Mathematics: The Numbers behind NUMB3RS, written with Gary Lorden. His other books include The Math Instinct, The Millennium Problems, The Math Gene, Infosense, Mathematics: The New Golden Age, Goodbye Descartes, and The Language of Mathematics.
