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Founding mother of department of mathematics dies
Marion V. Smith, 93, passed on Friday, Sept. 13, 2013, at the Shepherd of the Valley Healthcare Center. A native of St. Paul Minn., she had retired as professor emerita from Moorhead State University, where she taught mathematics from 1945 to1982. As a hobbyist photographer she enjoyed summer vacations touring the world’s exotic locals, which resulted in many awards.
Dr. Lisa Stewart Gets Local Minnesota Reading Corps Members Ready For Kids
Dr. Lisa Stewart, psychology, trained 80 Northwestern Minnesota Americorps Reading Corps members Aug 20- 22 at the Minneapolis Convention Center. Over 1,000 Reading Corps members from all across Minnesota started their year of service this week by taking the Americorps pledge and getting trained to provide high quality targeted interactions and reading interventions with kids from age 3 to grade […]
MSUM Math Department will host Tri-College Math Contest
The MSUM Mathematics Department will be hosting the Tri-College Math Contest for area middle and high school students on campus over spring break. More than 2,000 students are registered for the contest from locations extending to Bismarck, Larimore, Grand Forks, Thief River Falls, Mahnomen, Wadena, Alexandria, and Breckenridge. This year’s contest problems were drawn up by the Concordia math department […]
Sayel Ali published mathematics paper
Sayel Ali, Mathematics, had his paper, “The phi-ratio tests” published in Elemente der Mathematik, a Journal of the Swiss Mathematical Society published by the European Mathematical Society, Volume 67, Issue 4, 2012, pp. 164–168. The paper is a joint work with Marion Deutsche Cohen from Arcadia University, Pa. In this paper a family of new convergence tests, the phi-ratio tests, […]