Education
From Harvard University, and Doctor of Philosophy in mathematics from Oregon State University in 1948, the last with a dissertation entitled A Class of Projective Space Curves written under Ingomar Hostetter.
(In this follow-up to his successful "In Mathematical Circ...)
In this follow-up to his successful "In Mathematical Circles", Howard Eves once again presents a witty and insightful collection of stories pulled straight from contemporary and ancient mathematical history. Eves threads his way around the human element of mathematics--with the historical and cultural folklore that takes math beyond numbers--and introduces you and your students to a side of mathematics you may never have known existed.
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From Harvard University, and Doctor of Philosophy in mathematics from Oregon State University in 1948, the last with a dissertation entitled A Class of Projective Space Curves written under Ingomar Hostetter.
Eves received his Bachelor of Surgery from the University of Virginia, the Master of Arts He then spent most of his career at the University of Maine, 1954–1976. In later life, he occasionally taught at University of Central Florida. Eves was a strong spokesman for the Mathematical Association of America, which he joined in 1942, and whose Northeast Section he founded.
Foreign 25 years he edited the Elementary Problems section of the American Mathematical Monthly.
He solved over 300 problems proposed in various mathematical journals. His six volume, collecting humorous and interesting anecdotes about mathematicians, was recently reprinted by the MAA, who also published his two volume Great Moments in the History of Mathematics, and his autobiographical Mathematical Reminiscences in 2001.
Eves had six children.
(In this follow-up to his successful "In Mathematical Circ...)
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