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
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. Along with Dana Mackenzie and Paul Zorn he is the author of several of the volumes in the
American Mathematical Society 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
University of Maryland College Park in 1980. He was an instructor at
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at
Ohio State University. He was an assistant professor of mathematics at
St. Olaf College
St. Olaf College is a private liberal arts college in Northfield, Minnesota. It was founded in 1874 by a group of Norwegian-American pastors and farmers led by Pastor Bernt Julius Muus. The college is named after the King and the Patron Saint Olaf ...
in
Northfield, Minnesota. Cipra received the 1991 Merten M. Hasse Prize from the
Mathematical Association of America
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for his work on the
Ising model. 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 Erik Demaine, Martin Demaine & Tom M. Rodgers), AK Peters (2004),
References
External links
Barry Cipra at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
February 24, 2014
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21st-century American mathematicians
20th-century American mathematicians
University of Maryland, College Park alumni
St. Olaf College faculty
Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty
Ohio State University faculty
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)