Thomas William Hungerford (March 21, 1936 – November 28, 2014) was an American mathematician who worked in

algebra Algebra () is one of the areas of mathematics, broad areas of mathematics. Roughly speaking, algebra is the study of mathematical symbols and the rules for manipulating these symbols in formulas; it is a unifying thread of almost all of mathem ...

and

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. He is the author or coauthor of several widely used and widely cited Citations at docjax.net the document search engine
/ref> textbooks covering high-school to graduate-level mathematics. From 1963 until 1980 he taught at the

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and then at

Cleveland State University Cleveland State University (CSU) is a Public university, public research university in Cleveland, Ohio. It was established in 1964 and opened for classes in 1965 after acquiring the entirety of Fenn College, a private school that had been in op ...

until 2003. From 2003–2014 he was at

Saint Louis University Saint Louis University (SLU) is a private Jesuit research university with campuses in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, and Madrid, Spain. Founded in 1818 by Louis William Valentine DuBourg, it is the oldest university west of the Mississip ...

. Hungerford had a special interest in promoting the use of technology to teach mathematics. Hungerford did his undergraduate work at the

College of the Holy Cross The College of the Holy Cross is a private, Jesuit liberal arts college in Worcester, Massachusetts, about 40 miles (64 km) west of Boston. Founded in 1843, Holy Cross is the oldest Catholic college in New England and one of the olde ...

and defended his Ph.D. thesis at the

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chic ...

in 1963 (advised by

Saunders Mac Lane Saunders Mac Lane (4 August 1909 – 14 April 2005) was an American mathematician who co-founded category theory with Samuel Eilenberg. Early life and education Mac Lane was born in Norwich, Connecticut, near where his family lived in Taftvill ...

). Throughout his career he wrote more than a dozen widely used mathematics textbooks, ranging from high school to graduate level.

Bibliography

Graduate

* 1974 Algebra (Graduate Texts in Mathematics #73). Springer Verlag.

Undergraduate

* 1997 Abstract Algebra: An Introduction, 2nd Edition. Cengage. * 2005 Contemporary College Algebra and Trigonometry, 2nd Edition. Cengage. * 2005 Contemporary College Algebra, 2nd Edition. Cengage. * 2006 Contemporary Trigonometry. Cengage. * 2009 Contemporary Precalculus, 5th Edition (with Douglas J. Shaw). Cengage. * 2011 Mathematics with Applications, 10th Edition (with Margaret L. Lial and John P. Holcomb, Jr). Pearson. * 2011 Finite Mathematics with Applications, 10th Edition (with Margaret L. Lial and John P. Holcomb, Jr). Pearson. * 2013 Abstract Algebra: An Introduction, 3rd Edition, Cengage.

High school

* 2002 Precalculus: A Graphing Approach (with Irene Jovell and Betty Mayberry). Holt, Rinehart & Winston.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hungerford, Thomas William Algebraists 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians College of the Holy Cross alumni University of Chicago alumni University of Washington faculty Cleveland State University faculty Saint Louis University faculty Saint Louis University mathematicians People from Oak Park, Illinois 1936 births 2014 deaths Mathematicians from Illinois