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Paul Zorn
Chair, Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science
St. Olaf College
1520 St. Olaf Avenue
Northfield, Minnesota 55057-1098
Phone: 507-646-3414
Fax: 507-646-3116
Email: zorn@stolaf.edu
Office: Old Music Hall 203
Office Hours, Spring 2007:
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday: 2:00 - 3:00
- Tuesday, Thursday: 9:30 - 10:30
At other times, make an appointment or just look for me in my office.
Courses I'm teaching in Spring 2007
My professional hero
I wish I were like this guy, from the
Canterbury Tales :
A CLERK ther was of Oxenford also,
That unto logyk hadde longe ygo.
As leene was his hors as is a rake,
And he was nat right fat, I undertake,
But looked holwe and therto sobrely.
Ful thredbare was his overeste courtepy;
For he hadde geten hym yet no benefice,
Ne was so worldly for to have office.
For hym was levere have at his beddes heed
Twenty bookes, clad in blak or reed,
Of Aristotle and his philosophie,
Than robes riche, or fithele, or gay sautrie.
But al be that he was a philosophre,
Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre;
But al that he myghte of his freendes hente,
On bookes and on lernynge he it spente,
And bisily gan for the soules preye
Of hem that yaf hym wherwith to scoleye.
Of studie took he moost cure and moost heede.
Noght o word spak he moore than was neede,
And that was seyd in forme and reverence,
And short and quyk, and ful of hy sentence;
Sownynge in moral vertu was his speche,
And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche.
Papers and essays by Paul Zorn on calculus and other undergraduate
mathematical topics
Here are some of my papers related to undergraduate mathematics
education.
- A book review of
David Berlinski's book A Tour of the Calculus ; it appeared
in AMS Notices.
- Algebra, Computer Algebra, and Mathematical Thinking, a
paper
on educational uses of high-level mathematical computing,
from a conference held in 2002 on Crete.
- Beyond Vulgar Mechanics, an invited
paper
on technology in undergraduate mathematics education.
- Millennial Calculus Courses: Goals and Content, an invited
paper
on how calculus course content might change in coming years.
Calculus from Graphical, Numerical, and
Symbolic Points of View
That's a two-volume, single-variable calculus
textbook by Arnold Ostebee and Paul Zorn.
Here is our homepage.
Multivariable
Calculus from Graphical, Numerical, and
Symbolic Points of View
That's a one-volume multivariable calculus textbook by
Arnold Ostebee and Paul Zorn.
Here is the appropriate homepage.
Using LaTeX
Click here for information on using LaTeX (the gold standard,
in my opinion) for mathematical word processing.
latexprimer.pdf
A fascinating source on mathematical history
Want to know Euler's dates? Where Gauss was born?
Who contributed to the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra?
For lots of mathematico-historical information, try the
History of Mathematics archive at the University
of Saint Andrews, in Scotland.
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