Fred Richman
Even mathematics is a "language" that states propositions and tells stories.
It's a very elaborate form of "play" language. That's why it's such fun for
those who speak it well. Richard Mitchell, "Less than words
can say"
The goal of higher education is to
seduce students into a love of learning.
Barbara Lazear Ascher
Universities should not be brokers of the contemporary.
The purpose of education is to open the remote past to the
students, so they can learn from the voluminous human
record of mistakes and triumphs.
Camille Paglia
Technology is wonderfully exciting---and ultimately
irrelevant---but wonderfully exciting.
David Gelernter
Vita
- Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
Florida Atlantic University,
1990.
- Professor,
New Mexico State University,
1971. (AP 1966, aP 1963)
- PhD, University of Chicago, 1963 (Irving Kaplansky).
- AB, Princeton University, 1958.
Research Interests
Abelian group theory, commutative rings, and
constructive mathematics.
See
Confessions of a formalist, Platonist intuitionist
for a brief automathography.
Recent papers
- Zero sets of univariate polynomials,
Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., 362 (2010), 6619-6632, (with Robert S. Lubarsky)
- Signed-bit representations of real numbers,
J. Logic and Analysis, 1 (2009), 1-18, (with Robert S. Lubarsky)
- Discrete logarithms for finite groups,
Computing, 85 (2009), 3-19, (with Lee C. Klingler,
Spryos Magliveras, and Michal Sramka).
- Intuitionistic notions of boundedness in N,
Math. Logic Quarterly, 55 (2009), 31-36.
- Transient limits,
Applicable Analysis and Discrete Mathematics, 3 (2009), 52-63.
(with Katarzyna Winkowska-Nowak).
- Real numbers and other completions,
Math. Logic Quarterly, 54 (2008), 98-108.
A textbook.
An introductory modern algebra text
for undergraduates.
A skeptical look at this perennial problem.
A poem about the
uncountability of the real numbers.
A proposal to eliminate countable
choice from constructive mathematics.
Links to my scripts on various mathematical topics.
Department of Mathematics
Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, Florida 33431-0991
Latitude 26 22 15 North, Longitude 80 6 10 West.
Office: Room 224, Science & Engineering
Phone: (561) 297-2484
Fax: (561) 297-2436
Email:
richman@fau.edu
Last modified 4 May 2012.