Lynn Steen

Lynn Arthur Steen (born 1941)^[1] is an American mathematician who is Professor of Mathematics at St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota in the U.S.
He has written numerous books and articles on the teaching of mathematics. He is a past president of the Mathematics Association of America (MAA) and has served as chairman of the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences.

Quotation

Mathematics, in the common lay view, is a static discipline based on formulas…But outside the public view, mathematics continues to grow at a rapid rate…the guide to this growth is not calculation and formulas, but an open ended search for pattern.

- Lynn Arthur Steen, from On the Shoulders of Giants ^[2]

Publications

• Lynn Arthur Steen and J. Arthur Seebach, Jr., Counterexamples in Topology, (1978) Dover Publications, ISBN 0-486-68735-X.

• On the Shoulders of Giants: New Approaches to Numeracy, Authors Mathematical Sciences Education Board, Lynn Arthur Steen, National Research Council, Editor Lynn Arthur Steen, Publisher National Academies Press, 1990 ISBN 0309084490

References

• Personal Page at at St. Olaf College
• Resumé at St. Olaf College
• Selection of published work at zoominfo Accessed December 2006

External links

• Professional Resumé