Barry Arthur Cipra, an American mathematician and freelance writer, regularly contributes to ''Science'' magazine and ''SIAM New''s, a monthly publication of the

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. Along with Dana Mackenzie and Paul Zorn he is the author of several of the volumes in the

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series ''What's Happening in the Mathematical Sciences'', a collection of articles about recent results in pure and applied mathematics oriented towards the undergraduate mathematics major.

Biography

Cipra got his Ph.D. from

University of Maryland College Park The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland, United States. Founded in 1856, UMD i ...

in 1980. He was an instructor at

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of modern technology and sci ...

and at

Ohio State University The Ohio State University (Ohio State or OSU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio, United States. A member of the University System of Ohio, it was founded in 1870. It is one ...

. He was an assistant professor of mathematics at

St. Olaf College St. Olaf College is a private liberal arts college in Northfield, Minnesota, United States. It was founded in 1874 by a group of Norwegian-American pastors and farmers led by Pastor Bernt Julius Muus. The college is named after the King and th ...

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. Cipra received the 1991 Merten M. Hasse Prize from the

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for his work on the

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. In 2005 he received the JPBM Communications Award.JPBM Communications Award
Previous Recipients

Bibliography

What’s Happening in the Mathematical Sciences: ''Digits of Pi''

''The Best of the 20th Century: Editors Name Top 10 Algorithms''
SIAM News, Vol 33, No 4 *
''Algebraic Geometers see Ideal Approach to Biology''
SIAM News, Vol 40, No 6
''The Ising Model Is NP-Complete''
SIAM News, Vol 33, No 6.

SIAM News, Vol. 26, No. 5, August 1993.
''Getting a Grip on Elliptic Curves''
Jan 1989, Science, Volume 243, Issue 4887, pp. 30–31 * ''Misteaks, And How to Find Them Before the Teacher Does'', Boston : Academic Press, 1989, *
Tribute to a Mathemagician
' (co-edited with

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& Tom M. Rodgers), AK Peters (2004),

References

External links

Barry Cipra at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

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