Doctoral advisor Karl Kronstein Name Joseph Gallian | Role Mathematician Academic advisor Karl Kronstein | |
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Born January 5, 1942 (age 82)
Pennsylvania ( 1942-01-05 ) Institutions University of Minnesota Duluth Alma mater Slippery Rock University
University of Kansas
University of Notre Dame Known for REU program/Combinatorics Notable awards Haimo Award from the Mathematical Association of America (1993)
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Minnesota Professor of the Year (2003)
Mathematical Association of America Gung and Hu Award for Distinguished Service to Mathematics (2011) Residence Duluth, Minnesota, United States Education University of Kansas, Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania, University of Notre Dame Books Answer key for Contemp, Contemporary Abstract Algebra, Communicating Mathematics: A Confer, Contemporary Abstract Algebra 4, Contemporary Abstract Algebra | ||
Joseph A. Gallian (born January 5, 1942) is an American mathematician, the Morse Alumni Distinguished University Professor of Teaching in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Minnesota Duluth.
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Professional career
Gallian completed his Ph.D. thesis, entitled Two-Step Centralizers in Finite p-Groups, at the University of Notre Dame in 1971 under the supervision of Karl Kronstein. He has been a professor at the University of Minnesota Duluth since 1972. In addition to teaching math classes, he taught a humanities course called the "The Lives and Music of the Beatles" for 33 years and a liberal arts course on math and sports.
Gallian has authored or edited six books (Contemporary Abstract Algebra, Houghton Mifflin; For All Practical Purposes, W.H. Freeman (coauthor); Principles and Practices of Mathematics, Springer-Verlag; Proceedings of the Conference on Summer Undergraduate Mathematics Research Programs, Editor, American Mathematical Society; Proceedings of the Conference on Promoting Undergraduate Research in Mathematics (editor), American Mathematical Society; Mathematics and Sports, Mathematical Association of America) and over 100 articles. He earned media attention in 1991 when he determined the methods used by Minnesota and many other states for assigning drivers' license numbers.
Between 1977 and 2017, Gallian ran thirty-eight Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) programs at the University of Minnesota Duluth. The program has been funded by the University of Minnesota Duluth grants from the National Science Foundation (35+ years) and the National Security Agency (25+ years). It is one of the oldest and longest running REUs in the country. As of the end of 2017, the program has had 237 undergraduate participants and has produced more than 225 publications in mainstream professional journals. More than 130 Duluth REU students have received a PhD degree.
Gallian served a 2-year term as the President of the Mathematical Association of America starting in January 2007. In addition, he was co-director of Project NExT from 1998 to 2012, Associate Editor of MAA OnLine since 1997, a member of the advisory board of Math Horizons since 1993, and a member of the editorial board of the American Mathematical Monthly for 15 years.
Awards and honors
Gallian has won both the Allendoerfer and Evans awards for exposition from the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) and was the Polya lecturer for the MAA from 1999 to 2001.
His excellence in teaching earned him the Haimo Award for distinguished teaching from the MAA in 1993 and he was the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Minnesota Professor of the Year in 2003.
In 2011 he received the MAA's Yueh-Gin Gung and Dr. Charles Y. Hu Distinguished Service to Mathematics Award.
In 2000, Gallian was named by a Duluth newspaper as one of the "100 Great Duluthians of the 20th Century".
In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.