Joseph Battle

Dr. Joseph Battle is an American mathematician. He earned his BS in Mathematics and Physics at North Carolina Central University and MS in Mathematics at University of Michigan. Thereafter, Battle joined the workforce teaching mathematics in North Carolina’s public schools and at Morgan State University. After three years of service, Battle returned to the University of Michigan to complete his PhD in Mathematics. Upon graduation Battle worked as a Senior Analysist in Operations Research for the then four-year-old company Research Triangle Institute (RTI) in Durham, NC. RTI is now a global nonprofit research and technical services company. Battle was called to teach. In 1964 he took the position of Chairman of the Department of Mathematics at University of Lagos in Nigeria. In 1970 he moved to Duke University where he served as a professor in the graduate school of business administration.