Ross Honsberger

Ross Honsberger (born 1929 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian mathematician and author on recreational mathematics.

Life

Honsberger studied mathematics at the University of Toronto (bachelor's degree) and then worked for ten years as a teacher in Toronto, before continuing his studies at the University of Waterloo (master's degree). Since 1964 he has been on the faculty of mathematics, where he is now professor emeritus. He dealt with combinatorics and optimization, especially with mathematics education. He developed education courses, for example, on combinatorial geometry, held frequently lectures for students and math teachers, and was editor of the Ontario Secondary School Mathematics Bulletin. He wrote numerous books on elementary mathematics (geometry, number theory, combinatorics, probability theory), and recreational mathematics (often at the Mathematical Association of America, MAA), with him in his own words using the book by Hans Rademacher and Otto Toeplitz of numbers and figures as a model. Frequent are his expositions of problems at the International Mathematical Olympiads and other competitions.

Edsger W. Dijkstra called his Mathematical Gems "delightful".[1]

Books

References

  1. ↑ Dijkstra, Edsger W. (30 December 1975). "An open letter to Ross Honsberger.".
  2. ↑ A. Bogomolny, Mathematical Morsels by Ross Honsberger from Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles http://www.cut-the-knot.org/books/morsels1/index.shtml, Accessed 8 October 2012
  3. ↑ Carolyn Pillers Dobler, Russell V Lenth, "Brief Reviews of Teaching Materials", The American Statistician, Vol. 58, Iss. 2, 2004
  4. ↑ Sands, Bill. "Book Reviews" (PDF). Crux (Canadian Mathematical Society) 24 (2): 78–80.
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