Barry Arthur Cipra, an American mathematician and freelance writer, regularly contributes to ''Science'' magazine and ''SIAM New''s, a monthly publication of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Along with Dana Mackenzie and Paul Zorn he is the author of several of the volumes in the

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series ''What's Happening in the Mathematical Sciences'', a collection of articles about recent results in pure and applied mathematics oriented towards the undergraduate mathematics major.

Biography

Cipra got his Ph.D. from

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in 1980. He was an instructor at

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and at

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. He was an assistant professor of mathematics at St. Olaf College in

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. Cipra received the 1991 Merten M. Hasse Prize from the Mathematical Association of America for his work on the

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. In 2005 he received the JPBM Communications Award.JPBM Communications Award
Previous Recipients

Bibliography

What’s Happening in the Mathematical Sciences: ''Digits of Pi''

''The Best of the 20th Century: Editors Name Top 10 Algorithms''
SIAM News, Vol 33, No 4 *
''Algebraic Geometers see Ideal Approach to Biology''
SIAM News, Vol 40, No 6
''The Ising Model Is NP-Complete''
SIAM News, Vol 33, No 6.

SIAM News, Vol. 26, No. 5, August 1993.
''Getting a Grip on Elliptic Curves''
Jan 1989, Science, Volume 243, Issue 4887, pp. 30–31 * ''Misteaks, And How to Find Them Before the Teacher Does'', Boston : Academic Press, 1989, *
Tribute to a Mathemagician
' (co-edited with

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& Tom M. Rodgers), AK Peters (2004),

References

External links

Barry Cipra at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

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