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David Bressoud
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David Bressoud is a DeWitt Wallace Professor of Mathematics at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Professional experience: David served in the Peace Corps from 1971 to 1973, teaching junior high school math and science at the Clare Hall School in Antigua, West Indies. He began teaching at the University Park campus of Penn State in 1977, was promoted to full professor in 1986, and moved to Macalester College in 1994. He served as chair of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science from 1995 to 2001. David has held visiting positions at the Institute for Advanced Study and the universities of Minnesota, Strasbourg, and Wisconsin. He has published over 50 research articles and five books: Factorization and Primality Testing (Springer-Verlag, 1989), Second Year Calculus from Celestial Mechanics to Special Relativity (Springer-Verlag, 1991), A Radical Approach to Real Analysis (Mathematical Association of America, 1994), Proofs and Confirmations: The Story of the Alternating Sign Matrix Conjecture (Cambridge University Press, 1999), and A Course in Computational Number Theory (Key College Press, 2000).
AP connection: David taught a section of AB Calculus at the State College Area High School in 1990-91 and became an AP Calculus Reader in 1993. He's been a Table Leader since 1998 and a Question Leader since 2000. David joined the AP Calculus Development Committee in 1999.
Education: David received a bachelor's in mathematics from Swarthmore College in 1971, and a master's and Ph.D. in mathematics from Temple University. He studied analytic number theory with Emil Grosswald and wrote his doctoral dissertation on problems posed by Srinivasa Ramanujan.
Personal: David grew up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, but now feels very much at home in Minnesota where he lives adjacent to the Macalester campus with his wife, Jan. He enjoys bicycling, swimming, and hiking, and tries to find time to practice his French. |
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