Mathematics Department

Courses Taught:
College Algebra and Trigonometry
Statistics
Precalculus
Finite Mathematics
Calculus 1
Calculus 2
Calculus 3
Differential Equations

Education:
BA (1962) in Mathematics, Luther College
MA (1966) in Mathematics Higher Education, New York University
MS (1970) in Mathematics, Adelphi University
Further graduate work at Rutgers, The State University and at Adelphi University 

Publications:

1. The Kelly Criterion and the Stock Market. (with Edward O. Thorp)
   American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 99, No. 10, December 1992

2. Mathematical Illiteracy: What Can be Done to Remedy the Situation.
   The New York Times, Sunday Westchester Edition, January 27, 1985

3. Automated Summarized Options Comparator. Financial and Investment
   Software Review, March/April, Vol. II, Number 2, 1983

4. Index Options and the Black-Scholes Model. Financial and Investment
   Software Review, March 1984

5. Finite Mathematics for Business, Social Sciences and the Liberal Arts.
   D. Van Nostrand, 1980

6. The Indeterminate Form 0^0. (with Henry Korn)
   MAA Mathematics Magazine, January, 1977

7. Continued Square Roots. The Mathematics Teacher, October, 1965

Other Background Information:
Recipient of the Joseph and Sophia Abeles Endowed Chair in Mathematics (2007); SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching; WCC Foundation Award for Excellence in Scholarship; Registered as an Investment Adviser by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (1988-1998); Actuarial Analyst at Met Life Insurance Company (1963-1965); United States Power Squadron Certificate of Achievement in Advanced Piloting (1994); National Science Foundation full-year Faculty Fellowship In Science Applied to Societal Problems, under Walter Meyer at Adelphi University (1975-1976). Interests include: my family and close friends, the students at WCC , the Mathematics Department and its members at WCC, sailing, stock market timing models, politics, reading, all kinds of music (especially Rachmaninoff, Bach, Mozart, Mahler, Gershwin, Rodriguez, Villa-Lobos, Rodriguez, Spanish guitarists, jazz pianists) and playing– not effortlessly – some classical piano.