Short Resume--Walter S. Sizer
Education:
Dartmouth College, A.B. (mathematics), 1969
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, M.A. (mathematics), 1972
University of London, Ph.D. (mathematics), 1976
Similarity of Sets of Matrices over a Skew Field (P. M. Cohn, advisor)
Employment:
1977-1980 Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
1980-present Minnesota State University Moorhead, with leaves of absence
1986-1987 MARA Community College, Kuantan, Malaysia
1991-1992 University of Cape Coast, Ghana (Fulbright lecturer)
1997-1998 University of Rhode Island
Selected Publications:
"Triangularizing Semigroups of Matrices over a Skew Field", Linear Algebra and Its Applications, (1977), pp. 177-187.
"Group Retractions Induced by a Total Order", Houston Journal of Mathematics, (1979), pp. 267-268.
with F. D. Pedersen, "Relating Certain Semigroup Homomorphisms with Group Retractions", Semigroup Forum, (1983), pp. 111-117.
"Continued Roots", Mathematics Magazine, (1986), pp. 23-27.
"Other Numeral Systems-Alive and Thriving", Mathematics Teacher, (1990), pp. 17-19.
"Mathematical Notions in Preliterate Societies", The Mathematical Intelligencer, (1991), pp. 53-60.
with E. K. Wiredu, "Convergence of Some Continued Roots in the Complex Plane", Bulletin of the Malaysian Mathematical Society, (1996), pp. 1-7.
with M. R. S. Kolenovic and G. Ladas, "On the Recursive Sequence x(n+1) = (ax(n)+bx(n-1))/(cx(n)+dx(n-1))", Mathematical Sciences Research Hot-Line, (1998), pp. 1-6.
"Traditional Mathematics in Pacific Cultures", in The History of Non-Western Mathematics Across Cultures, edited by Helaine Selin, Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000, pp. 253-287.
"Some Periodic Solutions of the Lyness Equation", in New Trends in Difference Equations: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Difference Equations, edited by S. Elaydi et al., New York: Taylor & Francis, 2002, pp. 267-272.
"Base and Subbase in a Number System", Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal, vol. 27 (2003).
"Periodicity in May's Host Parasitoid Equation", in Advances in Discrete Dynamical Systems, edited by S. Elaydi et al., Tokyo: Mathematical Society of Japan, 2009, pp. 333-337.
"Further Instances of Periodicity in May's Host Parasitoid Equation", Fasciculi Mathematici, no. 44 (2010), pp. 115-121.
"Numerals in History", Proceedings of the Twelfth Midwest History of Mathematics Conference, Daniel J. Curtin (ed.), Highland Heights, KY: Northern Kentucky University Mathematics Department, 2011, pp. 41-55.
"Period Two Solutions to Some Systems of Rational Difference Equations", in Differential and Difference Equations with Applications, Sandra Pinelas et al. (eds.), New York: Springer Verlag, 2013, pp. 599-606.
"The Equation x(n+1)=[x(n)^K]/x(n-1)", in prepatation.
Current projects: reading, problems in difference equations
Hobbies: birdwatching, travel
This page maintained by Wally Sizer, sizer@mnstate.edu
Last Revision:
December 10, 2013