Bressoud, David M(arius)

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BRESSOUD, David M(arius)

BRESSOUD, David M(arius). American, b. 1950. Genres: Mathematics/Statistics. Career: U.S. Peace Corps, Washington, DC, volunteer teacher of science and mathematics at Clare Hall School in Antigua, 1971-73; Pennsylvania State University, University Park, assistant professor, 1977-82, associate professor, 1982-86, professor of mathematics, 1986-94; Macalester College, professor of mathematics, 1994-. Visiting professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1980-81, 1982, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, 1983, 1998, and University of Strasbourg, 1985-86. Institute of Advanced Study, member, 1979-80. Publications: Analytic and Combinatorial Generalizations of the Rogers-Ramanujan Identities, 1980; Factorization and Primality Testing, 1989; Second Year Calculus from Celestial Mechanics to Special Relativity, 1991; A Radical Approach to Real Analysis, 1994; Proofs and Confirmations, 1999; A Course in Computational Number Theory, 2000. Contributor to mathematics journals. Address: Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Macalester College, 1600 Grand Ave, St. Paul, MN 55105, U.S.A. Online address: bressoud@macalester.edu

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