Newsletter
In the Department of Mathematics and Statistics' annual newsletter, The Quaternion , we report news of the department (as a whole, and of individual members). Each
issue also has a feature on a topic in mathematics and/or statistics, mathematics
education, or something else of interest to the math/statistics community.
RECENT Issue
Past issues
2000's
Fall 2009 Technology in the (Large) Classroom
Fall 2008 Carol Williams on Why Are the Atomic Clocks Running Fast?
Fall 2007 Boris Shekhtman and Just a Thought about Poincaré.
Fall 2006 Arcadii Grinshpan and An Old Answer to an Old Problem.
Fall 2005 Boris Shekhtman on If Size Matters, Then How Large are the Primes?
Fall 2004 Richard Stark and Greg McColm on The Ultimate Machinery of Life.
Fall 2003 Fred Zerla on why he uses the graphic calculator in teaching.
Fall 2002 Richard Stark on Leopard Spots, Emergent Properties, and Ghostly Mathematics.
Fall 2001 Natasha Jonoska on Computing with Biomolecules. Greg McColm and Ken Pothoven on What
Happened to Calculus Reform?
Fall 2000 Boris Shekhtman on The Joy of Mathematics.
1990's
Fall 1999 Vilmos Totik on Approximations at USF.
Fall 1998 Chairman Marcus McWaters comments on the classification of USF as a Research I university.
Spring 1997 Chairman's Comments: A Late-Night Cosmic Connection on the Hillsborough River.
Spring 1996 Announcement of the formation of the Nagle Memorial Lecture Series.
Fall 1995 A New Chair.
Spring 1994 Chairman's Comments: A Season of Change.
Fall 1993 Chairman's Comments: Training mathematicians to work in non-academic settings.
Spring 1993 Chairman's Comments: Departmental alumni survey conducted as part of the reaccreditation
process.
Fall 1992 Chairman's Comments: General Education Course Design Workshop held at USF.
Spring 1992 Chairman's Comments: Analysis of Tampa Tribune article reporting on a U.S. Department
of Labor study of skills employers require from school system graduates.
Fall 1991 Chairman's Comments: Relationship between personal belief system held by instructors
and how they teach mathematics.
Spring 1991 US-USSR Joint Workshop in Approximation Theory held at USF.
Fall 1990 Chairman's Comments: Defining mathematics as a science.
Spring 1990 Chairman's Comments: Florida Board of Regents disciplinary review of mathematics departments.
1980's
Fall 1989 Chairman's Comments: Five faculty members work together to obtain an NSF grant for
the purchase of Sun computer equipment.
Spring 1989 Chairman's Comments: Discussion of a report by the National Research Council “Everybody
Counts” on the future of mathematics education.
Fall 1988 Chairman's Comments: Defining mathematics as an art.
Spring 1988 Chairman's Comments: Arrows Theorem
Fall 1987 Chairman's Comments: BA/MA Accelerated Program in Mathematics approved by USF.
Spring 1987 Chairman's Comments: BA/MA Accelerated Program in Mathematics approved by USF.
Winter 1986 Chairman's Comments: Discussion of how the importance of mathematics is underrated
in the public's perception.
Spring 1986 Chairman's Comments: The language of mathematics.
Fall 1985 Chairman's Comments: Adapting undergraduate mathematics education to meet increasingly
diverse needs.
Spring 1985 Chairman's Comments: Analysis of the SUS Mathematics and Statistics Program Review.
Fall 1984 Chairman's Comments: Inaugural issue of the departmental newsletter, which includes
a description of the department and its makeup.
Contact us
If you would like to respond to an article, or discuss other Quaternion -related matters, please contact the editor, Greg McColm .