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 .