Lynn Steen

Lynn Arthur Steen ( born January 1, 1941 in Chicago) is an American mathematician and mathematics educator.

Life

Steen grew up in Staten Iceland and studied at Luther College (Bachelor 1961) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT ), where he received his doctorate in 1965 from Kenneth Hoffman (Uniform approximation by rational functions). After that, he was assistant professor and in 1975 professor at St. Olaf College. 1971/72 he was a visiting scientist at the Mittag-Leffler Institute.

1980/81 he was Vice President and 1985/ 86 of the President of the Mathematical Association of America ( MAA ), 1992, he received the Distinguished Service Award. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. From 1970 to 1992, Steen associate editor of the American Mathematical Monthly and 1976-1980 editor of Mathematics Magazine. He was a member and from 1992 to 1995 Chairman of the Mathematical Sciences Education Board of the National Research Council.

He is known by various popular books on mathematics and books on mathematics education - especially for pleadings to promote fundamental computing skills in the classroom ( Quantitative Literacy ). He also wrote a book about Arthur Seebach Counterexamples in topology and wrote articles for Mathematics and Science News Encyclopedia Britannica.

1973 and 1974 he was awarded the Lester Randolph Ford Award. He is an honorary doctor of Luther College, Wittenberg University ( 1991) and Concordia College in Minnesota. He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Steen is married since 1963 and has two daughters.

Writings

  • With J. Arthur Seebach Jr. counterexamples in topology, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970, 2nd edition, Springer Verlag 1978, Dover reprint 1995
  • Publisher: Mathematics Today -twelve informal essays, Springer Verlag 1978, Vintage Books 1980
  • Publisher Mathematics Tomorrow, Springer Verlag 1981
  • Achieving quantitative literacy: an urgent challenge for higher education, MAA 2004
  • Publisher: Mathematics and democracy: the case for quantitative literacy, National Council on Education and the Disciplines ( NECD ), Princeton 2001
  • Why numbers count: Quantitative literacy for tomorrow 's America, College Entrance Examination Board, New York in 1997
  • Publisher On the shoulders of giants: new approaches to numeracy, Mathematical Sciences Education Board, Washington DC, National Academy Press, 1990 ( in him: Pattern )
  • Publisher Calculus for a New Century: A Pump, not a Filter, Washington DC, MAA 1988
  • For all practical purposes Publisher: introduction to contemporary mathematics, WH Freeman 1991
  • Publisher: Math and bio 2010: linking undergraduate disciplines, MAA 2005
  • Everybody counts: Report to the Nation on the Future of Mathematics Education, National Academy Press 1989
  • The science of patterns, Science, Volume 240, 1988, pp. 611-616
  • From counting votes to making votes count: the mathematics of elections, Scientific American, October 1980
  • New Models of the real number line, Scientific American, Volume 224, 1971
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