I got my Ph.D. in mathematics from Brown University in 1978. I started out as a pure mathematician in the “Queen of Mathematics” – number theory and that lasted for about 20 years. But then I left academia for good. Once I stopped teaching, I have, among other things, been a visiting scientist at IBM’s Watson Labs and a program director at the National Science Foundation. I’ve written or co-written many books about programming and taught programmers for more than 20 years. I’m most proud of the fact that I was the co-founder and CEO of Apress (www.apress.com) which I made the fastest growing publisher for IT professionals in the world during the period 2000-2007. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But then I honored my pledge to step down when Apress got big enough to need an HR department and I’ve been (semi) retired ever since! Of course, I have had to fill my time somehow and I’ve been learning a fair amount of statistics which seems to be the best fit for my talents and my current interest in practical rather than theoretical mathematics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, besides this blog of course, I’m working on a book for non-mathematicians tentatively called “Numeracy can save you: the basic math and statistics you need to know to be safer during a pandemic”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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