• Ph. D. (1982), M. A. (1964) in Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley. NSF Graduate Fellow in mathematics (1962–66) and Woodrow Wilson Honorary Fellow.
• Stanford University Fellow, Warsaw University and Polish Academy of Sciences (1967–68).
• S. B. (1962) in Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. National Merit Scholar; Borden Prize.

Teaching

Professor, jointly in math and in computer science, University of San Francisco. (since 1983)

Director of mathematics and curriculum consultant, The Meher Schools, Lafayette CA. Taught math to 6–10th grades. (1979–82)

Coordinator of Public Programs, Lawrence Hall of Science, UC Berkeley. Trained 100 8–12th grade students to teach entire regular math classes twice a week; taught 3–12th grade classes; provided inservice training to 45 adult teachers at 10 East Bay schools; represented this program for conferences and regional news media. (1971–80)

Math Specialist in Project SEED. Enriched 3rd, 5th grade math classes; Berkeley. (1971–72)

Curriculum Development At USF

Mathematics and Esthetics: Science and Art in the Bay Area. Freshman Seminar (2005–07, 2002–03). Extended in spring 2008 to the existing Great Ideas in Mathematics Core course.

3D Computer Graphics and Animation. Two-unit one-semester practical course introducing modern graphics to students in any major; first taught in spring 2006. Based on previous three one-unit five-week independent consecutive service courses and a special-topics CS graduate course. (1999–2008)

Chaos and Order. Nine Freshman Seminars in three forms; the third form was a GEC Natural Science course with concurrent lab section; the second form used Chaos under Control text and software. Featured multiple field trips. (1998–2001, 1990–94)

Infinity, Chaos, and Mysticism in Science and Religion. Templeton Foundation prize-winning upper division Theology GEC course, jointly offered to 72 students in spring 2000.

Intermediate Algebra. Remedial algebra at junior high school level. In two forms: the first used curriculum developed at Meher High School; the second used calculator-based course materials developed jointly with Millianne Lehmann (Math, USF). (1995, 1991, 1990, 1985)

Other Professional Experience Supporting The Fusion Project

Participant in Standards for Success (S4S), helping to evaluate and apply a methodology for studying the degree of concordance and alignment between high school assessment and asserted needs for collegiate success in mathematics; sponsored by Stanford University and University of Oregon. (since spring 2002)

Invited participant in Faculty Resource Network (NYU) Summer Seminar on Art and Science at the Crossroads. (June 2004)

Service Learning Workshop 2003, USF two-day workshop on improving service-learning courses. (2003)

Scholarly Publications, Pedagogical Contributions And Creative Work

“Math Stories at the de Young Museum—Seven Treatments,” curricular outline for teaching grade 7 math using the museum’s collections for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and the Fusion Project (www.fusionprojectinfo.com). (2007) (32 pp.)

Orientation training for Fusion Project Teachers Advisory Group, de Young Museum, December 2007.

“Addled Tangles of Sanguine Language,” in refereed proceedings Bridges Donostia, Mathematical Connections in Art, Music, and Science. (10 pp.)

“The Triumph of the One” and “The Place of Pilgrimage,” in refereed proceedings Bridges: Mathematical Connections in Art, Music, and Science 2004, pp. 103–108, 343–344.

“Mathematics and Esthetics—Science and Art in the Bay Area” and “Two Geometric Sculptures with Distant Ontogenies” in refereed proceedings Meeting Alhambra: ISAMA-Bridges 2003 Conference Proceedings, pp, 307–314, 577.

“The Rootsellers—Retelling the Galois Group of a Quartic Polynomial,” in refereed proceedings Bridges: Mathematical Connections in Art, Music, and Science 2002, pp.235–246.

“Touring the Mandelbrot Set.” Talk on the fractal properties of the Mandelbrot set at USF 1988. Also delivered at East China Normal University, Shanghai, June 1988. Repeated in nineteen courses (1989–2008).

“The Matrix: a Mixed Metaphor” for Los Medanos College, Pittsburg CA, May 2000; for CTNS Science and Religion Course Workshop, Berkeley CA, June 2000

Classroom and conference presentations of raps, songs, and multimedia vignettes (see “My Math Professor,” www.youtube.com). (since 1989)

Classroom puppet shows and vignettes introducing the Klein 4-group as the symmetry group of the rectangle, and as the Galois group of x4 – 5x2 + 6. (2002–, 1987–88)

Performances: chorus, dance (live and video), magic, puppetry (twelve cabaret performances in 1997), video-acting, drama (live and video), Russian Chorus. (since 1961)

Conferences Attended (In addition to Bridges/ISAMA)

Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival, Pixar Section, Emeryville CA; led “Folding Fractals” activity (2008)

Invited participant in the A5 Symposium, Bloomington, Indiana, Feb. 2005; this closed symposium celebrated the 60th birthday of Douglas Hofstadter, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Gˆdel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid. (2005)

ACM Siggraph Conference on Computer Graphics, San Antonio (2002), Los Angeles (1999, 1995), Orlando (1994), Las Vegas (1991), Dallas (1986), SF (1985)

Art & Mathematics, UC Berkeley (1998)

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, San Francisco (1994)

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