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powerpoint. Latonia dancer. Why she’s famous. She has served as a mathematics faculty member at the University of Utah and the University of Tennessee and as Head of the mathematics department at the University of Tennessee from 1973 to 1980. When she was born.

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  1. powerpoint Latonia dancer

  2. Why she’s famous • She has served as a mathematics faculty member at the University of Utah and the University of Tennessee and as Head of the mathematics department at the University of Tennessee from 1973 to 1980.

  3. When she was born • Born in Houston, Texas, she holds a baccalaureate from Rice University (1946), a masters from the University of Texas (1949), and a doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania (1954)--all in mathematics. Her dissertation at the University of Pennsylvania was on "Regular Curves and Regular Points of Finite Order," written under the supervision of John Kline.

  4. Facts about lida • While at Tennessee, during her husband's tenure as department head, she ran an independent mathematical consulting business, including editorial work for book publishers, primarily for calculus texts, and work at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Her thesis work and initial publications were in General Topology. At Oak Ridge, her work and publications were in applied mathematics. Her recent work and publications have been in mathematics education.

  5. Another fact. • She was on the planning committee for the International Congress in Mathematics Education in Madrid, Spain, in July of 1996. She was a member of the advisory committee of the Harvard Calculus Consortium and of the Adolescence and Young Adult/Mathematics Standards committee for the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards.

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