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Harvey Jerome Brudner in 2007
Harvey Jerome Brudner in 2007

Harvey Jerome Brudner (born in Brooklyn, New York on May 29, 1931) is a scientist and was the Dean of Science & Technology at the New York Institute of Technology.

He received his B.S. in Engineering Physics in 1952 and graduated cum laude. He received his M.S. in Physics in 1954, and his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics in 1959, all from New York University. [1]

He was the Dean of Science & Technology at the New York Institute of Technology from 1962 to 1964. He was President of the Westinghouse Learning Corporation from 1971 to 1976, and is the President of the Joyce Kilmer Centennial Commission, in New Brunswick, New Jersey from 1985 to the present. [2] [3] [4] [5] He was made a fellow of the IEEE in 1978, "for leadership in the development and application of computers and electronic, audio-visual systems in education and training." [6] He is also President of the Highland Park, New Jersey Centennial Commission. [7]

[edit] Publications

  • Computer-Managed Instruction; Science; November 29, 1968: 970-976
  • Fermat and the Missing Numbers, 1994 ISBN 0964478501
  • How the Babylonians Solved Numbered Triangle Problems 3,600 Years Ago; Technological Horizons In Education, Volume 26, 1998. "A classic mystery locked in a 3,600-year-old Babylonian clay tablet has been solved! How did the Babylonians know the Pythagorean theorem a thousand years before the Greek mathematician and philosopher was born? For those who have forgotten their geometry, the Pythagorean theorem states: "The square of the hypotenuse of a right-angle triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the two ..."
  • How Two Even Numbers Can Be Used to Produce Three Pythagorean Numbers, 2005

[edit] References

  1. ^ Who's Who in Science and Engineering; 8th edition
  2. ^ Mitgang, Herbert. "Tree at Rutgers marks Joyce Kilmer's centennial", New York Times, December 5, 1986. Retrieved on 2007-04-14. "Tomorrow an anyone-can-join-it parade will take place in New Brunswick, with a couple of bands, arborists, Girl Scouts, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the dozen or so members of the local Joyce Kilmer Centennial Commission, headed by Dr. Harvey Brudner, an engineer and historian, leading off." 
  3. ^ Playhouse spooks up city
  4. ^ Famous 'Tree' poem originates at U.; Rutgers; The Daily Targum; October 12, 2004
  5. ^ Borough children celebrate 100 years
  6. ^ Fellows Class of 1978
  7. ^ Let us all now praise good men -- and Highland Park; Home News Tribune November 20, 2003