Background
Deborah Bennett was born on August 6, 1950, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States. She is the daughter of Hal C. Bennett, a United States Army colonel, and Jean Bennett, a computer systems analyst.
Deborah Bennett
Deborah Bennett received a B.S. from University of Alabama in 1972.
Deborah Bennett received a M.S. George Washington University in 1980.
Deborah Bennett received a Ph.D. from New York University in 1993.
Deborah Bennett received a B.S. from University of Alabama in 1972.
Deborah Bennett received a M.S. George Washington University in 1980.
Deborah Bennett received a Ph.D. from New York University in 1993.
(From the ancients' first readings of the innards of birds...)
From the ancients' first readings of the innards of birds to your neighbor's last bout with the state lottery, humankind has put itself into the hands of chance.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674107462/?tag=2022091-20
1998
(This brilliantly clear and gratifyingly concise treatment...)
This brilliantly clear and gratifyingly concise treatment of the ancient Greek discipline identifies the illogical in everything from street signs to tax forms.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00C7JAGSI/?tag=2022091-20
2005
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Deborah Bennett was born on August 6, 1950, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States. She is the daughter of Hal C. Bennett, a United States Army colonel, and Jean Bennett, a computer systems analyst.
Deborah received a Bachelor of Science from the University of Alabama in 1972. She then got a Master of Science from George Washington University in 1980, and a Ph.D. from New York University in 1993.
Deborah Bennett began her career as a stuff member at the Institute for Defense Analysis, Arlington, Virginia, in 1973. Since 1975 she served as operations research analyst at the United States General Accounting Office, Washington, District of Columbia. Five years later she came to State University of New York, Farmingdale, on the position of instructor and later of assistant professor of mathematics. In 1993 she transfered to New Jersey City University on the position of assistant professor and then of associate professor. Meanwhile, Deborah volunteered for the United States Peace Corps in Ghana, West Africa, from 1980 to 1881, then served as consultant at Monar Marketing, Inc. from 1981 to 1984.
Math professor Deborah Bennett is also the author of several books. She addresses the average individual in her book Randomness. The mathematical concept named in the book’s title is key to the disciplines of statistics and probability, to chaos theory, as well as to games of chance. Thus it is a topic relevant to everyone's life, and yet it is a little understood concept. It seems part of human nature to want to be able to predict outcomes, to rely on luck, to make sense of random events, and to otherwise make order of our lives. Bennett seeks to show how randomness makes these things difficult, and why it is a difficult concept for many people to grasp.
Bennett commented on her motivation to write the book, telling: “I was inspired to write Randomness because of my inherent fascination with things random and because of the difficulty we all have in understanding things probabilistic. As a first-hand observer of students attempting to grapple with notions of chance and as an active instructor attempting to clarify these ideas, I have come to appreciate how difficult some seemingly simple problems can be. As a mathematics educator, my primary motivation is to interpret and convey what might be considered complex ideas as simply as possible. With Randomness, it was my desire to de-mystify probability for the general audience or at a minimum to help them understand that we are all in the same boat. Chance defies intuition.''
Deborah Bennett is the author of popular books in math: Randomness and Logic Made Easy. She also was Honoree at the 2013 Women’s History Month ceremony co-hosted by Hudson County Executive Thomas A. DeGise, the Hudson County Board of Chosen Freeholders, and the Hudson County Office of Cultural and Heritage Affairs.
(From the ancients' first readings of the innards of birds...)
1998(This brilliantly clear and gratifyingly concise treatment...)
2005Bennett is a member of Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators, Association of Mathematics Teachers of New Jersey, Hudson Area Math Alliance, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, and New Jersey Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators.
On June 7, 1987, Deborah married Michael Hirsch, an actor and composer.
