Department News
The Department of Mathematics and Statistics has an annual newsletter, The
Quaternion, in which we report news of the department (as a whole, and of
individual members). Each issue also has a feature on a topic in mathematics
and/or statistics, mathematics education, or something else of interest to the
math/statistics community. The newsletter is distributed in late August or early
September.
If you would like to be added to our mailing list, please contact
Greg McColm.
Current Issue. Boris Shekhtman and Just a Thought about
Poincaré.
Past issues, and features, in html format:
- Fall 2006. Arcadii Grinshpan and An Old Answer to an Old
Problem.
- Fall 2005. Boris Shekhtman on If Size Matters, Then How
Large are the Primes?
- Fall 2004. Richard Stark and Greg McColm on The Ultimate
Machinery of Life.
Other past issues, and features, in pdf format:
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Fall 2003. Fred Zerla on why he uses the graphic calculator in
teaching.
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Fall 2002. Richard Stark on Leopard Spots, Emergent Properties, and
Ghostly Mathematics.
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Fall 2001. Natasha Jonoska on Computing with Biomolecules.
Greg McColm and Ken Pothoven on What Happened to Calculus Reform?
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Fall 2000. Boris Shektman on the Joys of Mathematics.
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Fall 1999. Vilmos Totik on approximation theory.
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Fall 1998. Chairman Marcus McWaters on the classification
of USF as a Research I university.