David Bressoud

Macalester College

DeWitt Wallace Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science
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Journal Articles

Historical Reflections on Teaching the Fundamental Theorem of Integral Calculus, American Mathematical Monthly (2011)

The Rocky Transition from High-School Calculus, Chronicle of Higher Education (2010)

Establishing the Quantitative Thinking Program at Macalester, Numeracy: Advancing Education in Quantitative Literacy (2009)

Is the Sky Still Falling?, Notices of the AMS (2009)

MAA to Probe Calculus I, MAA Focus (2009)

Mind the Gap, MAA Focus (2009)

Technology in Support of the Classroom, MAA Focus (2009)

Abstract versus Concrete Examples in Teaching Math, MAA Online (2008)

Lessons for Effective Teaching, MAA Online (2008)

Strategic Planning Around STEM Issues, MAA Online (2008)

College Calculus: What We Don t Know, MAA Online (2008)

Student Thinking, MAA Online (2008)

Quantitative Literacy and Teacher Education, MAA Online (2008)

Disturbing Trends in the CBMS Data, MAA Online (2008)

Getting Students to Read, MAA Online (2008)

The National Math Panel Report, MAA Online (2008)

How to Fix K-12 Education, MAA Online (2008)

Mining the llustrative Resources, MAA Online (2008)

A Radical Approach to a First Course in Calculus, MAA Online (2008)

The Dangers of Dual Enrollment, MAA Focus (2007)

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

Adventures in the Amusement Park: AB2/BC2 from the 2002 AP Calculus Exam, (online) (2002)

Calculus before Newton and Leibniz II: Archimedes and sums of squares, (online) (2002)

Calculus before Newton and Leibniz III: Sums of powers, (online) (2002)

The Curriculum Foundations Workshop on Chemistry, Focus 22 (2002)

Was Calculus Invented in India?, College Mathematics Journal (2002)

Change of base in Bailey pairs (with M. Ismail and D. Stanton), Ramanujan Journal (2001)

Three alternating sign matrix identities in search of bijective proofs, Advances in Applied Mathematics (2001)

What's been happening to undergraduate mathematics, Journal of Chemical Education (2001)

Calculus before Newton and Leibniz, (online) (2001)

How the Alternating Sign Matrix Conjecture Was Solved (with James Propp), Notices of the American Mathematical Society (2001)

A family of partition identities proved combinatorially (with J. P.O. Santos and P. Mondek), Ramanujan Journal (2000)

Elementary proofs of identities for Schur functions and plane partitions, Ramanujan Journal (2000)

Elementary proof of MacMahon's conjecture, Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics (1998)

Issues in Scholarly Communication II: The looming opportunities (with Joel Clemmer), Colloquoy (1996)

Issues in Scholarly Communication III: the looming opportunities (with Joel Clemmer), Colloquoy (1996)

The Borwein conjecture and partitions with prescribed hook differences, Electronic Journal of Combinatorics (1996)

Why the study of mathematics is one of the liberal arts, Macalester Today (1995)

Pre-1994 journal articles, (see attached) (1994)

Books

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

Radical Approach to Real Analysis (2007)

Undergraduate Programs and Courses in the Mathematical Sciences: CUPM Curriculum Guide 2004 (with W D. Barker, S Epp, S Ganter, W Haver, and H Pollatsek) (2004)

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)

Factorization and Primality Testing (1989)

Analytic and Combinatorial Generalizations of the Rogers-Ramanujan Identities (1980)

Contributions to Books

The Art of Counting, Expeditions in Mathematics (2011)

Combinatorial Analysis, NIST Handbook of Mathematical Functions (2010)

Exploiting Symmetries: Alternating Sign Matrices and he Weyl Character Formulas, Surveys in Number Theory (2008)

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

Parallel Developments in Philosophy and Mathematics in India (with Joy Laine), UMAP/ILAP Modules 2003-2004: Tools for Teaching (2003)

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)

Book Reviews

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

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

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

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)

Review of Ramanujan's Lost Notebook, Bulletin of the AMS (2006)

Other

"The Queen of the Sciences: A History of Mathematics" (DVD), The Teaching Company (2008)