Joseph Gallian

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Joseph Anthony Gallian (born January 5, 1942 in Pennsylvania ) is an American mathematician who studied combinatorics and algebra and is known as a math teacher.

Joseph Gallian

Life

Gallian grew up in New Kensington near Pittsburgh and studied at Slippery Rock State University with a bachelor's degree in 1966, at the University of Kansas (master's degree in 1968) and received his doctorate in 1971 from the University of Notre Dame with Karl Kronstein ( two- step centralizers in finite p-groups ). After a year as Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Notre Dame, he became Assistant Professor in 1972 and Professor at the University of Minnesota Duluth in 1980 .

In 1977 he founded the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program at his university, which served as a model for other such programs in the USA. Its aim is to pose problems for the students, which they find in a kind of mini-Ph.D. Approach the program and which often result in publications (in twenty years, around 170 participants have produced 150 publications). The focus was initially (according to Gallian's expertise) on finite groups and Cayley graphs.

From 1999 to 2001 he was a Polya Lecturer at the Mathematical Association of America (MAA). In 2007/08 he was President of the MAA. In 2013 he became a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society . He is also on the advisory board of Math Horizons (the MAA's magazine for undergraduates) and one of the leaders of the MAA's NExT project for the advanced training of postdocs.

He was Associate Editor of Mathematics Magazine and American Mathematical Monthly.

In 2003 he was Minnesota Professor of the Year for the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. In 1977 he received the MAA's Allendoerfer Award (for The Search for Finite Simple Groups ) and in 1996 the MAA's Trevor Evans Award (for Weird Dice ).

In his spare time he is a collector of Beatles memorabilia.

Fonts

  • Contemporary Abstract Algebra , Brooks / Cole, 7th edition 2010
  • Editor Mathematics and Sports , MAA 2010
  • A dynamic survey of graph labeling , Electronic J. of Combinatorics 2010
  • with S. Curran: Hamiltonian cycles and paths in Cayley graphs and digraphs - a survey , Discrete Mathematics, Volume 156, 1996, pp. 1-18
  • Error detection methods , ACM Computing Surveys, Volume 28, 1996, pp. 504-517

literature

  • Donald J. Albers, Gerald L. Alexanderson Fascinating Mathematical People: Interviews and Memoirs , Princeton University Press 2011

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ Mathematics Magazine, Volume 49, 1976, pp. 163-180
  4. ^ Math. Horizons, February 1995, pp. 30-31
personal data
SURNAME Gallian, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gallian, Joseph Anthony (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Pennsylvania