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In the Department of Mathematics and Statistics' annual newsletter, The Quaternion, we report news of the department (as a whole, and of individual members). Each issue also has a feature on a topic in mathematics and/or statistics, mathematics education, or something else of interest to the math/statistics community.
RECENT Issue
| Fall 2023 | Doing Math on the Web |
Past issues
2020's
| Spring 2022 | CodeBreakHERS Summer Camp 2021 |
| Spring 2021 | Pandemic Stories |
2010's
| Winter 2019 - 2020 | Rouge Waves to Lump Waves |
| Spring 2019 | Taming the Tiger: Calculus at USF |
| Fall 2016 | Mathematics and Cybersecurity at USF |
| Fall 2015 | The AAAS Honors USF Professor Nataša Jonoska |
| Fall 2014 | Changing the Guard |
| Fall 2013 | Computer Guided Coursework: the SMART Lab |
| Fall 2012 | The AMS Comes to Visit: the Section Meeting at USF |
| Fall 2011 | Gravitational Lensing and the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra |
| Fall 2010 | The Zen of Math Education |
2000's
| Fall 2009 | Technology in the (Large) Classroom |
| Fall 2008 | Carol Williams on Why Are the Atomic Clocks Running Fast? |
| Fall 2007 | Boris Shekhtman and Just a Thought about Poincaré. |
| Fall 2006 | Arcadii Grinshpan and An Old Answer to an Old Problem. |
| Fall 2005 | Boris Shekhtman on If Size Matters, Then How Large are the Primes? |
| Fall 2004 | Richard Stark and Greg McColm on The Ultimate Machinery of Life. |
| Fall 2003 | Fred Zerla on why he uses the graphic calculator in teaching. |
| Fall 2002 | Richard Stark on Leopard Spots, Emergent Properties, and Ghostly Mathematics. |
| Fall 2001 | Natasha Jonoska on Computing with Biomolecules. Greg McColm and Ken Pothoven on What Happened to Calculus Reform? |
| Fall 2000 | Boris Shekhtman on The Joy of Mathematics. |
1990's
| Fall 1999 | Vilmos Totik on Approximations at USF. |
| Fall 1998 | Chairman Marcus McWaters comments on the classification of USF as a Research I university. |
| Spring 1997 | Chairman's Comments: A Late-Night Cosmic Connection on the Hillsborough River. |
| Spring 1996 | Announcement of the formation of the Nagle Memorial Lecture Series. |
| Fall 1995 | A New Chair. |
| Spring 1994 | Chairman's Comments: A Season of Change. |
| Fall 1993 | Chairman's Comments: Training mathematicians to work in non-academic settings. |
| Spring 1993 | Chairman's Comments: Departmental alumni survey conducted as part of the reaccreditation process. |
| Fall 1992 | Chairman's Comments: General Education Course Design Workshop held at USF. |
| Spring 1992 | Chairman's Comments: Analysis of Tampa Tribune article reporting on a U.S. Department of Labor study of skills employers require from school system graduates. |
| Fall 1991 | Chairman's Comments: Relationship between personal belief system held by instructors and how they teach mathematics. |
| Spring 1991 | US-USSR Joint Workshop in Approximation Theory held at USF. |
| Fall 1990 | Chairman's Comments: Defining mathematics as a science. |
| Spring 1990 | Chairman's Comments: Florida Board of Regents disciplinary review of mathematics departments. |
1980's
| Fall 1989 | Chairman's Comments: Five faculty members work together to obtain an NSF grant for the purchase of Sun computer equipment. |
| Spring 1989 | Chairman's Comments: Discussion of a report by the National Research Council “Everybody Counts” on the future of mathematics education. |
| Fall 1988 | Chairman's Comments: Defining mathematics as an art. |
| Spring 1988 | Chairman's Comments: Arrows Theorem |
| Fall 1987 | Chairman's Comments: BA/MA Accelerated Program in Mathematics approved by USF. |
| Spring 1987 | Chairman's Comments: BA/MA Accelerated Program in Mathematics approved by USF. |
| Winter 1986 | Chairman's Comments: Discussion of how the importance of mathematics is underrated in the public's perception. |
| Spring 1986 | Chairman's Comments: The language of mathematics. |
| Fall 1985 | Chairman's Comments: Adapting undergraduate mathematics education to meet increasingly diverse needs. |
| Spring 1985 | Chairman's Comments: Analysis of the SUS Mathematics and Statistics Program Review. |
| Fall 1984 | Chairman's Comments: Inaugural issue of the departmental newsletter, which includes a description of the department and its makeup. |
Contact us
If you would like to respond to an article, or discuss other Quaternion-related matters, please contact the editor, Greg McColm.