Kenneth Arthur Stroud (;
Richmond, Surrey
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, December, 1908 –
Hertfordshire township, February 3, 2000) was a mathematician and Principal Lecturer in Mathematics at
Lanchester Polytechnic
, mottoeng = By Art and Industry
, established =
, type = Public
, endowment = £28 million (2015)
, budget = £787.5 million
, chancellor = Margaret Casely-Hayford
, vice_chancellor = John Latham
, students = ()
, underg ...
in
Coventry
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,
England
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. He is most widely known as the author of several mathematics textbooks, especially the very popular ''Engineering Mathematics''.
Education
Stroud held a
B.Sc.
A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, SB, or ScB; from the Latin ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for programs that generally last three to five years.
The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Science was the University of ...
and a
DipEd.
Work
Stroud was an innovator in
programmed learning Programmed learning (or programmed instruction) is a research-based system which helps learners work successfully. The method is guided by research done by a variety of applied psychologists and educators.Lumsdaine A.A. 1963. Instruments and media ...
and the identification of precise
learning outcomes,
[Stroud, K.A., "The Development, Organisation and Administration of Programmed Learning at Undergraduate Level", The Conference on Programmed Learning and Education Technology at Glasgow University, 5–8 April 1968, Association for Programmed Learning and Educational Technology, 1969, 295-298.] and Nigel Steele calls his textbook ''Engineering Mathematics'', based on the programmed learning approach, "one of the most successful mathematics textbooks ever published."
He died in February 2000, aged 91.
Bibliography
*''Laplace Transforms: Programmes and Problems'', Stanley Thornes Ltd, 1973, and 1978, .
*''Fourier Series and Harmonic Analysis'', Nelson Thornes Ltd, 1983, and Stanley Thornes Ltd, 1986, .
*''Engineering Mathematics'', Macmillan, 1970, . 6th ed., (with Dexter J. Booth), Industrial Press, 2007, .
*''Advanced Engineering Mathematics'' (with Dexter J. Booth), 5th ed., Industrial Press, 2011, , 4th ed., Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, .
*''Differential Equations'' (with Dexter J. Booth), Industrial Press, 2004, .
*''Vector Analysis'' (with Dexter J. Booth), Industrial Press, 2005, .
*''Complex Variables'' (with Dexter J. Booth), Industrial Press, 2007, .
*''Linear Algebra'' (with Dexter J. Booth), Industrial Press, 2008, .
*''Essential Mathematics for Science and Technology: A Self-Learning Guide'' (with Dexter J. Booth), Industrial Press, 2009, .
*''Further Engineering Mathematics : Programmes and Problems'', Palgrave Macmillan, 3 October 1986, . 2nd ed., Springer-Verlag, 1 November 1989, . 2nd ed., Palgrave Macmillan, June 1990, . 3rd Revised Edition, Palgrave Macmillan, 27 March 1996, .
*''Mathematics for engineering technicians'', Stanley Thornes Ltd., 1978, . Book 2A : Practical applications'', Stanley Thornes Ltd., 1981, .
References
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1908 births
2000 deaths
20th-century English mathematicians
People from Richmond, London