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Articles of General Interest by David Bressoud

• Launchings from the CUPM Curriculum Guide, a column on the recommendations contained in this guide.
• Establishing the Quantitative Thinking Program at Macalester. To Appear in Numeracy.
• The Art of Counting (draft of 7/24/06)
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• The Changing Face of Calculus,
  • First Semester Calculus as a High School Course, Word document
  • First- and Second-Semester Calculus as College Courses, Word document
• Calculus Before Newton and Leibniz
  • I: ibn al-Haytham and volumes of revolution, pdf file
  • II: Archimedes, areas and volumes, pdf file
  • III: sums of powers formulas, pdf file
• Quantitative Methods for Public Policy, to appear in Current Practices in Quantitative Literacy, MAA Notes, Word document
• Adventures in the Amusement Park: AB2/BC2 from the 2002 AP Calculus Exam, pdf file.
• Parallel Developments in Philosophy and Mathematics in India, COMAP:
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• What's Been Happening to Undergraduate Mathematics to appear in the Journal of Chemical Education. Also available as a pdf file.
• Was Calculus Invented in India? College Math Journal.
• Computer-generated proofs of mathematical theorems, Encylcopedia of Physcial Science and Technology. available as an pdf file.
• How the Alternating Sign Matrix conjecture Was Solved, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Vol: 46, 1999, Pages: 637--646. TeX document and PostScript files for figures 1-4 and figures 5-6.
• A View from Olin-Rice, Macalester 's Colloquoy, Special Core Values Edition, 1999, Pages: 1--2.
• Review of Classroom Assessment Techniques, to appear in the Teaching and Learning Undergraduate Mathematics newsletter of the British Mathematics Association.
• Personal Thoughts on Mature Teaching, appendix in How to teach mathematics: a personal perspective, second edition, by Steven G. Krantz, American Mathematical Society, Providence, 1998.
• Review of Serge Lang's Undergraduate Analysis, The Mathematical Intelligencer, 20: 76--77, 1998.
• The One-minute paper, Assessment Practices in Undergraduate Mathematics, MAA Notes # 49, Editors: B. Gold, S. Keith, W. Marion, Mathematical Association of America, Washington DC, 1999, Pages: 87-88.
• Review of Vectors and Tensors in Engineering and Physics by D. A. Danielson, The UMAP Journal.
• Review of Differential Forms: A complement to vector calculus by Steven Weintraub, The UMAP Journal, 18: 183-183, 1997
• with Joel Clemmer: Issues in scholarly communication III: The looming responsibilities, Colloquoy (Maclaester College), vol 13, no. 3, 1996.
• with Joel Clemmer: Issues in scholarly communication II: The looming opportunities, Colloquoy (Macalester College) , vol 13, no. 2 (March 1996): 7--11.
• with Joel Clemmer: Issues in scholarly communication I: The looming crisis,'' Colloquoy (Macalester College) , vol 12, no. 4 (Fall 1995): 1--6.
• Assessing Student Performance,' pages 66--73 in Calculus, The Dynamics of Change, A. Wayne Roberts, ed., The Mathematical Association of America, Notes Number 39, Washington, DC, 1996
• . Mathematics and the Liberal Arts, Macalester Today, November, 1995.
• Review of How to teach mathematics: a personal perspective by Steven G. Krantz, UME Trends, 7:4--5, 1995.
• Review of A Brief on Tensor Analysis, The UMAP Journal, 16, 1995
• Student attitudes in first-semester calculus, Focus, 14:6--7, 1994.
• Review of In search of E. T. Bell by Constance Reid and L'aurore des dieux by Jacques Dixmier, The Mathematical Intelligencer, 16:72--74, 1994.
• Review of The Problems of Mathematics by Ian Stewart, The Mathematical Intelligencer, 15:71--73, 1993.
• Why do we teach calculus? The American Math. Monthly, 99:615--17, 1992.
• How should we introduce integration?, The College Mathematics J., 23:296--98, 1992.
• Has Science made God irrelevant? Plumbline, 4--6, Dec. 1991.
• ``Most ferocious math problem is tamed.'' Research Penn State. 11 :4--8 (1990).