Stephen D. Abbott
Dept. Of Mathematics, Middlebury College

Ph.D. Mathematics, University of Virginia, May 1993
B.A. Mathematics, Colgate University, 1986
o 1993- present, Professor, Middlebury College
o Spring 1999, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Virginia
o 1992-1993 and 1995-1996, Visiting Assistant Professor, St Olaf College

Currently serving as co-Editor of Math Horizons (with Bruce Torrence of Randolph-Macon College)

Information regarding Understanding Analysis, Springer-Verlag Press, New York, 2001.

Course web pages for Fall 2009

• Math 121: Calculus I

Selected Publications:

"A Unified approach to some prediction problems," Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, vol 123, February 1995

"Take A Walk On the Boardwalk: Monopoly and Markov Chains," The College Mathematics Journal, vol. 10, no. 12, May 1997 (with Matt Richey).

"A General prediction theorem for unbounded weights," Houston Mathematics Journal vol 25, no. 2, 1999 (with Bruce Hanson)

"Turning Theorems into Plays," Math Horizons, September, 1999

"Reliable mobile robot navigation from unreliable visual cues," Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics, April 2000 (with Amy Briggs and Daniel Scharstein)

"The Boundedness of the Riesz projection on spaces with weights," Pacific Journal of Mathematics, vol. 198, No. 2, 2001 (with Irina Marinov, Middlebury class of 98)

"A Beautiful Mind," Math Horizons, April 2001.

Understanding Analysis, Springer-Verlag Press, New York, 2001.

"Making the Epsilons Matter" Pedagogical Innovations in Mathematics, MAA, November 2005.

"Lost in Shakespace" FOCUS, Mathematical Association of America, December 2005.

"A Mathematical Proof or Not?" Math Horizons, March 2006.

"Slow Points for functions in the Zygmund class." Real Analysis Exchange, April 2007.

"When Lions Battle," Math Horizons, April 2007.

phone: (802) 443-5609 (home) or (802) 443-2256 (office)

fax: (802) 443-2080

write: Dept of Mathematics, Middlebury College, Middlebury VT, 05753

or abbott@middlebury.edu