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Gerald L. Alexanderson

Mathematics

#1182

World Rank

#1978

Historical Rank

#503

USA Rank

Measure Theory

#3819

World Rank

#4503

Historical Rank

#1091

USA Rank

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Bachelors Mathematics University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Gerald Lee Alexanderson was an American mathematician. He was the Michael & Elizabeth Valeriote Professor of Science at Santa Clara University, and in 1997–1998 was president of the Mathematical Association of America. He was also president of The Fibonacci Association from 1980 to 1984.

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Gerald L. Alexanderson's Published Works

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Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning: Vol. I: Induction and Analogy in Mathematics (1979) (344)
About the cover: Euler and Königsberg’s Bridges: A historical view (2006) (84)
Mathematical People: Profiles and Interviews (1985) (49)
The random walks of George Pólya (2000) (46)
The William Lowell Putnam mathematical competition (1986) (45)
The William Lowell Putnam mathematical competition: problems and solutions: 1965-1984 (1985) (43)
Hamilton's Discovery of Quaternions (2011) (32)
Simple Partitions of Space (1978) (30)
Briefly Noted (1998) (20)
Gauss's Day of Reckoning (2006) (19)
International Mathematical Congresses: An Illustrated History 1893–1986 (1988) (19)
The honors class: hilbert’s problems and their solvers (2005) (16)
Arrangements of planes in space (1981) (16)
More Mathematical People: Contemporary Conversations (1993) (16)
Dark hero of the information age: in search of Norbert Wiener, the father of cybernetics (2006) (12)
DISSECTIONS OF A PLANE OVAL (1977) (11)
DISSECTIONS OF A PLANE OVAL (1977) (11)
A first undergraduate course in abstract algebra (1973) (10)
A simplicial 3-arrangement of 21 planes (1986) (9)
International Mathematical Congresses (1986) (8)
The Sixty-Third William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition (2003) (8)
The Sixty-second William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition (1992) (7)
A Conversation with Ivan Niven (1991) (7)
A Conversation with Richard K. Guy (1993) (7)
Dissections of a tetrahedron (1971) (6)
Dissections of a simplex (1973) (5)
Lion Hunting and Other Mathematical Pursuits. (1996) (5)
The mathematical century (2005) (5)
THE FIFTY-SEVENTH WILLIAM LOWELL PUTNAM MATHEMATICAL COMPETITION (1997) (5)
Lion hunting & other mathematical pursuits : a collection of mathematics, verse, and stories (1995) (4)
Fascinating Mathematical People: Interviews and Memoirs (2011) (4)
Gamma: Exploring Euler’s Constant (2005) (4)
A Conversation with Saunders Mac Lane (1989) (4)
A Conversation with Leon Bankoff (1992) (4)
Mathematical Adventures for Students and Amateurs (2004) (3)
Discrete and combinatorial mathematics (1987) (3)
ErratumArrangements of planes in space: To: G.L. Alexanderson and J.E. Wetzel Discrete Math. 34 (1981) 219–240 (1983) (3)
The Sixty-Sixth William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition (1996) (3)
Divisions of space by parallels (1985) (3)
Mathematical People-Profiles and Interviews (1986) (3)
Some Surprising Volumes of Revolution (1975) (3)
A simplicial 3-arrangement of 22 planes (1986) (2)
The Sixty-Fourth William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition (1994) (2)
The Harmony of the World: Introduction (2007) (2)
The Fiftieth William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition (1991) (2)
Twentieth-Century Gems from Mathematics Magazine (2005) (2)
About the cover: Sophie Germain and a problem in number theory (2012) (2)
REMEMBERING CONSTANCE REID (1918-2010) (2011) (2)
“Invertible” Polyhedron Models. Distributed by Snyder Engineering (1998) (2)
The Sixty-Fifth William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition (1995) (2)
Award for Distinguished Service to Professor Murray Klamkin (1988) (2)
About the cover: Two Theorems on Geometric Constructions (2014) (2)
A Century of Advancing Mathematics (2015) (2)
About the cover: Luca da Pacioli and Leonardo’s drawings of polyhedra (2010) (2)
The Seventy-Fifth William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition (2015) (1)
Mathematicians and old books (2005) (1)
Fascinating Mathematical People (2011) (1)
An Anniversary for Bernoulli's Ars Conjectandi (2013) (1)
George Polya Interviewed on His Ninetieth Birthday. (1979) (1)
The Sixty-Seventh William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition (2007) (1)
Harmony of the World: 75 Years of Mathematics Magazine (2007) (1)
On d-arrangements associated with a simplex (1986) (1)
Olga Taussky-Todd (2008) (1)
The Seventieth William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition (2010) (1)
The Sixtieth William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition (2000) (1)
Kürschak’s tile (1978) (1)
The Seventy-Second William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition (2012) (1)
The Seventy-Fourth William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition (2014) (1)
The Sixty-first William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition (1991) (1)
Ars Expositionis: Euler as Writer and Teacher (1983) (1)
On the Value of Mathematics (Books) (1982) (1)
The Sixty-Ninth William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition (1999) (1)
The Seventy-Seventh William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition (2017) (1)
About the cover: Billingsley’s Euclid in English (2012) (1)
About the cover: Waring’s problems (2018) (1)
An Interview with Paul Erdös (1981) (1)
The G. H. Hardy Reader (2016) (1)
The Seventy-Third William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition (2013) (1)
An Interview with Morris Kline: Part 2 (1979) (1)
Perplexities Related to Fourier's 17 Line Problem (2012) (0)
A Conversation with Garrett Birkhoff (1983) (0)
About the cover: Newton’s Principia (2016) (0)
Peter J. Hilton (2008) (0)
About the cover: Some mathematical encyclopedias (2014) (0)
Reviews (2016) (0)
The Sixty-Eighth William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition (1998) (0)
A Glimpse at the Pólya Picture Album (2018) (0)
About the cover: Maria Gaëtana Agnesi—a divided life (2012) (0)
About the cover: Christopher Clavius, Astronomer and Mathematician (2009) (0)
Reflections of a Department Chair (1991) (0)
February Meeting of the Northern California Section (1967) (0)
Business Meeting of the Northern California Section (1974) (0)
About the cover: Hilbert and the Paris ICM (2014) (0)
The Seventy-Sixth William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition (2016) (0)
Reviews (2012) (0)
About the cover: Early American arithmetics (2019) (0)
Mathematicians of the World, Unite! by Guillermo P. Curbera (2010) (0)
Warsaw 198\(\not{2}\) 3 (1987) (0)
Review: Loving and Hating Mathematics: Challenging the Myths of Mathematical Life. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2011, xii + 416 pp. ISBN 978-0-691-14247-0, $29.95. by Reuben Hersh and Vera John-Steiner (2012) (0)
About the cover: Mathematicians in bronze (2019) (0)
Ten. Richard K. Guy (2011) (0)
Functional trigonometry : a treatment of trigonometry integrated with vectors, complex numbers, analytic geometry (1961) (0)
About the cover: John Wallis and Oxford (2012) (0)
An Interview with Morris Kline: Part 1. (1979) (0)
Isaac Newton (2021) (0)
Fourteen. Atle Selberg (2011) (0)
George Pólya and the MAA (2015) (0)
The art of problem-solving (1976) (0)
Functional trigonometry : trigonometry integrated with vectors, complex numbers, analytic geometry, and elementary functions (1971) (0)
Reviews (2012) (0)
Mathematicians’ visiting Cards (2003) (0)
Review (2008) (0)
Review: Transcending Tradition: Jewish Mathematicians in German-Speaking Academic Culture. Springer Verlag, Berlin and Heidelberg, 2012, xi + 289 pp., ISBN 978-3-642-22463-8, $49.95. by Birgit Bergmann, Moritz Epple, and Ruti Ungar, editors (2012) (0)
Expeditions in Mathematics (2011) (0)
About the cover: Euler’s Introductio in analysin infinitorum (2007) (0)
An Interview with Constance Reid (1980) (0)
About the cover: Voltaire, du Châtelet, and Newton (2014) (0)
About the cover: Isaac Newton, Fatio de Duillier, and Alchemy (2011) (0)
Ramanujan in Bronze (2018) (0)
About the cover: Leonhard Euler, teacher and mentor (2017) (0)
About the cover: Laplace and his American translator (2013) (0)
About the cover: Vigeland’s Abel monument (2015) (0)
Award for distinguished service to Prof. Murray Klamkin (1988) (0)
About the cover: Are “old” mathematics books “collectible”? (2017) (0)
Mathematicians Fleeing from Nazi Germany: Individual Fates and Global Impact by Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze (2010) (0)
Mathematicians under the Nazis (2007) (0)
"Invertible" Polyhedron Models. (1998) (0)
1936: Post, Turing and a 'Kind of Miracle' in Mathematical Logic (2006) (0)
The Cycloid and Jean Bernoulli (2012) (0)
About the cover: The cycloid and Jean Bernoulli (2011) (0)
The Santa Clara High School Mathematics Contest (1968) (0)
Five. Leon Bankoff (2011) (0)
About the cover: Do opera omnia have a future? (2018) (0)
The Seventy-First William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition (2011) (0)
The Harmony of the World: Contents (2007) (0)
About the cover: The Newton–Leibniz controversy (2016) (0)
About the Cover: James Joseph Sylvester’s Spring’s Début (2008) (0)
Mathematical travelers (2007) (0)
As a general plane sweeps through space it counts the various types of regions produced by a given collection of planes. (2016) (0)
Algebra and trigonometry : a treatment of algebra and trigonometry integrated with vectors, complex numbers, and elementary functions (1963) (0)
George Pólya: A Biographical Sketch (1987) (0)
About the cover: Gauss and the Disquisitiones Arithmeticæ (2015) (0)
About the cover: Gaspar Schott’s Cursus Mathematicus (2015) (0)
A Conversation with Robin Wilson (1990) (0)
The Harmony of the World: A Brief History of Mathematics Magazine (2007) (0)
Three. Harold M. Bacon (2011) (0)
Book Review (2007) (0)
The Harmony of the World: The Problem Section (2007) (0)
About the cover: Ramanujan in bronze (2016) (0)

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