Paul J. Campbell
700 College St.
Beloit WI 53511
(608) 363-2007 (ofc)
(608) 363-2718 (fax)
(608) 362-2805 (res)
campbell@beloit.edu
Education ... Employment
... Teaching Specialties
Research Areas ... Professional
Activities
Awards, Honors, Grants
... Books ... Selected
Articles
Consulting ... Hobbies,
Sports, Other Interests
Education
- Ph.D. Cornell University, 1971, mathematical logic
Thesis: Suslin Logic, under Anil Nerode
- M.S. Cornell University, 1970, algebra
- B.S. University of Dayton, 1967, mathematics
(minor: physics; 1st in class of 1,800)
Employment
- Beloit College, 1977-
- St. Olaf College and its Paracollege, 1971-1977
Teaching Specialties
- Probability and statistics
- Mathematical modeling, especially environmental modeling
- Error-correcting codes
- Computer science (data structures, programming languages,
operating systems)
- List of all courses taught
Research Areas
- Matrix scaling algorithms
- History of mathematics (modern and contemporary)
- Analysis of algorithms
Professional Activities
Awards, Honors, Grants
- NSF Instructional Laboratory Improvement equipment grant,
1991 (with D. Chavey)
- Special Achievement Award, University of Dayton Alumni Association,
1989
- Certificate of Meritorious Service, Mathematical Association
of America, 1988
- NSF research grant (algorithms for linear algebra and convex
programming), 1984
- Danforth Graduate Fellow, NSF Graduate Fellow, Woodrow Wilson
Graduate Fellow, 1967-71
Books
- Co-author, For All Practical Purposes ,
ed. L.A. Steen, 1988.
2nd ed., 1991; 3rd ed., 1994; 4th ed., 1996.
German ed., Mathematik in der Praxis (Spektrum der Wissenschaft,
1990)
Spanish ed., Las matemtáticas en la práctica
(Addison-Wesley Iberoamericana España, 1996)
- Co-author, Principles and Practice of Mathematics
, Springer-Verlag, 1996
- Editor, UMAP Modules: Tools for Teaching , 12 vols.,
COMAP, 1985- (most volumes are out of print)
- Co-editor, Mathematics Education: Resources for Secondary
Schools and Two-Year Colleges, Garland, 1988 (out of print)
- Co-editor, Women of Mathematics:
A BiobibliographicSourcebook , Greenwood, 1987
Selected Articles
Links are to pdf files, which can be read and printed using
free Adobe
Acrobat software.
- "Mathematics," in Encyclopaedia
Britannica Yearbook of Science and the Future, 1988
- "Tchuka Ruma Solitaire,"
The UMAP Journal 16(4) (1995) 343365 (with Darrah
P. Chavey).
- "Professors' Commentary: The Politics
of Course Time Slots," The UMAP Journal 15(2)
(1994): 123136 (with Darrah P. Chavey and Philip D. Straffin).
- "Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler (18831966)," in
Women ofMathematics: A Biobibliographic Sourcebook, ed.
L.S. Grinstein and P.J. Campbell, Greenwood, 1987, 241246.
Reprinted in A Century of Mathematics in America, Part
III, American Mathematical Society, 1989, 293298.
- "The Geometry of Decoration on Prehistoric Pueblo Pottery
from Starkweather Ruin," Computers & Mathematics
with Applications 17 (1989) 731749. Reprinted in Symmetry
2: Unifying Human Understanding, ed. I. Hargittai, Pergamon
1989. Mathematical Reviews 90h:01003.
- "Secondary Fibonacci sequences," in A Collection
of Manuscripts Related to the Fibonacci Sequence, ed. V.E.
Hoggatt, Jr., and M. Bicknell-Johnson, Fibonacci Association,
1980, pp. 115 (with Christopher Moeller). Mathematical
Reviews 82j:10014.
- "The origin of 'Zorn's Lemma,'" Historia Mathematica
5 (1978) 7789. Mathematical Reviews 57 (1979) #2845.
- "Gauss and the eight queens problem: A study in miniature
of the propagation of historical error," Historia Mathematica
4 (1977) 397404. Mathematical Reviews 58 (1979) #21197.
- Full list, by topic area (not ready yet)
Consulting
Hobbies, Sports, Other Interests
- Tennis (USTA rating 3.5)
- Stamp-collecting (worldwide)
- TeX/LaTeX, mathematical typesetting, desktop publishing
- Macintosh computers and programming
Paul J. Campbell / campbell@beloit.edu