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, Associate Professor, Middlebury College

      o Spring 1999, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Virginia 

      o 1992-1993 and 1995-1996, Visiting Assistant Professor, St Olaf College 
    

    
2002-present, Co-Faculty Head of Ross 
      Commons, Middlebury College

    








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






Course web pages for Fall 2008






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 Lion's Battle," Math Horizons, 
  April 2007.








To get in touch:



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