Bressoud, president-elect of the Mathematical Association of America, is an
international authority in the area of analytic number theory. 

He is the co-author of A Course in Computational Number Theory, which is an introduction
to number theory that uses the computer for motivation and explanation. He is also the
author of Proofs and Confirmations: The Story of the Alternating Sign Matrix Conjecture,
which combines his interests in combinatorics and the history of mathematics. Other books
include A Radical Approach to Real Analysis. 

He is widely recognized for his work in improving secondary and undergraduate mathematics
education. In fact, much of his work involves putting math into a historical context. He
is also interested in intellectual property rights and issues of science and religion. 

Bressoud is involved with Quantitative Methods for Public Policy or QM4PP, an
interdisciplinary program involving the sciences, social sciences and humanities. 

EDUCATION: B.A., Swarthmore College M.A., Ph.D., Temple University 

David Bressoud has been teaching at Macalester College since 1994.

Journal Articles

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Launchings from the CUPM Curriculum Guide (monthly column), MAA Online (2006)
 

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Review of "James Joseph Sylvester: Jewish Mathematician in a Victorian World" by Karen Hunger Parshall, MAA Online (2006)
 

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Review of "Mathematics and Social Utopias in France: Olinde Rodrigues and His Times" by Simon Altmann and Edouardo L. Ortiz, MAA Online (2006)
 

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Review of "Number Theory in the Spirit of Ramanujan" by Bruce C. Berndt, MAA Online (2006)
 

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Review of "The Reception of the Galilean Science of Motion in Seventeenth-Century Europe" by Carla Rita Palmerino and J.M.M.H. Thijssen, MAA Online (2006)
 

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Books

Radical Approach to Lebesgue's Theory of Integration (2008)
 

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Radical Approach to Real Analysis (2007)
 

Second Year Calculus: from Celestial Mechanics to Special Relativity (2001)
 

Course in Computational Number Theory (with Stan Wagon) (2000)
 

Proofs and Confirmations: the Story of the Alternating Sign Matrix Conjecture (1999)
 

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Contributions to Books

Quantitative Methods for Public Policy, Current Practices in Quantitative Literacy (2006)
 

Computer-Generated Proofs of Mathematical Theorems, Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology (2001)
 

Personal Thoughts on Mature Teaching, How to Teach Mathematics (2001)
 

Assessing Student Performance, Calculus, The Dynamics of Change (1996)
 

The Borwein conjecture and partitions with prescribed hook differences, The Foata Festschrift (1996)