Lynn Steen
Encyclopedia
Lynn Arthur Steen is an American
mathematician
who is Professor of Mathematics at St. Olaf College
, Northfield
, Minnesota
in the U.S.
He has written numerous books and articles on the teaching of mathematics. He is a past president of the Mathematics Association of America (MAA) and has served as chairman of the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences.
- Lynn Arthur Steen, from On the Shoulders of Giants
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mathematician
Mathematician
A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....
who is Professor of Mathematics at St. Olaf College
St. Olaf College
St. Olaf College is a coeducational, residential, four-year, private liberal arts college in Northfield, Minnesota, United States. It was founded in 1874 by a group of Norwegian-American immigrant pastors and farmers, led by Pastor Bernt Julius Muus. The college is named after Olaf II of Norway,...
, Northfield
Northfield, Minnesota
As of the census of 2000, there were 17,147 people, 4,909 households, and 3,210 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,452.2 people per square mile . There were 5,119 housing units at an average density of 732.1 per square mile...
, Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...
in the U.S.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
He has written numerous books and articles on the teaching of mathematics. He is a past president of the Mathematics Association of America (MAA) and has served as chairman of the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences.
Quotation
Mathematics, in the common lay view, is a static discipline based on formulas…But outside the public view, mathematics continues to grow at a rapid rate…the guide to this growth is not calculation and formulas, but an open ended search for pattern.
- Lynn Arthur Steen, from On the Shoulders of Giants
Publications
- Lynn Arthur Steen and J. Arthur Seebach, Jr.J. Arthur Seebach, Jr.J. Arthur Seebach, Jr was an American mathematician.He received his Ph.D. in 1968 from Northwestern University. He joined the faculty of Mathematics at St. Olaf College in 1965. He was Associate Editor of the American Mathematical Monthly from 1971 to 1986 and Editor of Mathematics Magazine from...
, Counterexamples in TopologyCounterexamples in TopologyCounterexamples in Topology is a book on mathematics by topologists Lynn Steen and J. Arthur Seebach, Jr.In the process of working on problems like the metrization problem, topologists have defined a wide variety of topological properties...
, (1978) Dover PublicationsDover PublicationsDover Publications is an American book publisher founded in 1941 by Hayward Cirker and his wife, Blanche. It publishes primarily reissues, books no longer published by their original publishers. These are often, but not always, books in the public domain. The original published editions may be...
, ISBN 0-486-68735-X.
- On the Shoulders of Giants: New Approaches to Numeracy, Authors Mathematical Sciences Education Board, Lynn Arthur Steen, National Research Council, Editor Lynn Arthur Steen, Publisher National Academies Press, 1990 ISBN 0309084490