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Richard B. Thompson |
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Associate Professor, Emeritus Department of Mathematics University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona 85721 |
Office: Room 240D, Mathematics East Building
Office Hours: By appointment
Phone: (520) 323-0284
Fax: (520) 621-8322
e-mail: rbt@math.arizona.edu
Mathematics Department: http://www.math.arizona.edu
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Revised on February, 2009.
Mathematics for Business Decisions.
I have written a
series of two electronic texts, Mathematics for Business Decisions Parts 1
and 2, that
are designed for lower division students majoring in business. These texts, which are copyrighted to the
Arizona Board of Regents, are published and distributed by the Mathematical
Association of America.
For information on
the electronic texts visit
http://business.math.arizona.edu/MBD/mbd.html.
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Educational Background.
B.A. University of Northern Iowa, Mathematics and Physics, 1961
M.S. University of Wisconsin (Madison), Mathematics, 1963.
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin (Madison), Mathematics, 1967.
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Selected Publications.
Papers
1. Equilibrium Bidding
Strategies in Common-Value Sealed-Bid Auctions, with A. Larry Wright, 2004. Download PDF version.
2. Global Positioning
System: The Mathematics of GPS Receivers, Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 71, No. 4,
October, 1998, pp. 260-269. Download
PDF version.
3. Designing a
Baseball Cover, The College Mathematics Journal, Vol. 29, No. 1, January, 1998,
pp. 48-61. Download PDF
version.
4. Discovering
Differential Equations in Optics, with Bill Mueller, The College Mathematics
Journal, Vol. 28, No. 3, May, 1997, pp. 217-223.
5. Teachers Doing
Mathematics: A Lower Division Mathematics Colloquium. FOCUS, Vol. 16, No. 2,
April, 1996, pp. 28 - 30.
6. Competency Unit
Testing With Limited Repetitions, Mathematics in College, Instructional
Resource Center CUNY, Winter 1983, pp. 6-15.
7. Reporting College
Placement Scores and Grades to High Schools, The Mathematics Teacher, Vol. 74,
No. 4, 1981.
8. Student Pacing or
Instructor Pacing (with J. McCoy), American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 86, No.
3, pp. 217-221, 1979.
9. PSI in College Mathematics
(with M. Hassett), American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 85, No. 9, pp. 760-763,
1978.
Books
1. College Algebra,
Prindle, Weber, and Schmidt, 1978.
2. Intermediate
Algebra, Prindle, Weber, and Schmidt, 1976.
Electronic Textbooks
1. Mathematics for
Business Decisions Part 1, Standard
and Alternative releases 1.5 and 1.5a,
Mathematical Association of America, 2005 (with Christopher G. Lamoureux)
2. Mathematics for
Business Decisions Part 2, Mathematical Association of America, 2003 (with
Christopher G. Lamoureux)
MAA
Southwest Section Meeting Tucson, Arizona, 2006 Notes
Discovering
New Mathematics While You Teach, Download a
self-extracting Zipped file containing Word and Mathcad files with full notes for a presentation by Richard B. Thompson.
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Other Interests.
Family: I am married
to Sharon L. Thompson, and have two sons, Bruce and Curtis.
Ocean Sailing: Shari
and I have sailed yachts in Tahiti, the French Riviera, the Caribbean, Maine,
Australia and along the West Coast of the U. S. and Canada. Look at streaming
video and pictures.
Backcountry: I have
skied the Haute Route in the Alps; and Shari and I have made trips in Colorado,
Wyoming, and Canada. Look at streaming
video.
Music: I play the
drums in an 18-piece big band. Look at streaming
video.
Video: Shari and I
create DVD's from digital video shot during our travels.
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