Background
Allendoerfer, Carl Barnett was born on April 4, 1911 in Kansas City. Son of Carl William and Winifred (Barnett) Allendoerfer.
Allendoerfer, Carl Barnett was born on April 4, 1911 in Kansas City. Son of Carl William and Winifred (Barnett) Allendoerfer.
Bachelor of Science, Haverford College, 1932. Bachelor of Arts (Rhodes scholar), University of Oxford, 1934. Doctor of Philosophy, Princeton, 1937.
Member Institute Advanced Study, 1948-1949.
Professor mathematics Haverford College, 1946-1951. Professor mathematics U. Washington, Seattle, from 1951, Executive officer, 1951-1962. Fulbright lecturer Cambridge (England) University, 1957-1958, Australia, 1963.
Member division mathematics National Research Council, 1956-1958, 62-65, commission on mathematics College Entrance Examination Board, 1955-1959.
Operations analyst United States Government, World World War World World War World War II
Author: Principles of Mathematics, 1955. Fundamentals of Freshman Mathematics, 1959. Mathematics for Parents, 1963.
Fundamentals of College Algebra, 1967. Principles of Arithmetic and Geometry, 1971. Calculus of Several Variables and Differentiable Manifolds, 1974.
Editor American Mathematics Monthly, 1952-1956. Cons. editor in mathematics Macmillan Company, from 1958. Contributor articles to professional journals.
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member American Mathematics Society, Mathematics Association American (president 1959-1960, Chairman of Commission on educational media 1963-1966, Distinguished Service award 1972), Institute Mathematics Statistics, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, National Council Teachers Mathematics Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi. Club: Monday (Seattle).
Married Dorothy Holbrook, June 26, 1937. Children: Robert Duff, James Holbrook, William Barnett.