Citizenship United States | Name Michael Dorff | |
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Thesis The Inner Mapping Radius And Construction Of Harmonic, Univalent Mappings Of The Unit Disk (1997) Notable awards Haimo AwardFellow of the American Mathematical Society | ||
Doctoral advisor Ted Joe Suffridge | ||
Michael dorff treats audience to good clean fun at maa lecture
Michael John Dorff is a mathematician at Brigham Young University known for his work in undergraduate research, popularizing mathematics, and harmonic mappings.
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- Michael dorff treats audience to good clean fun at maa lecture
- A Thing of Beauty Soap Bubbles
- Life and career
- Awards and honors
- Selected publications
- References
A Thing of Beauty: Soap Bubbles
Life and career
Dorff taught high school for four years after receiving his BA in Mathematics Education. He received his MS from University of New Hampshire followed by a Ph.D. from University of Kentucky in 1997. He taught at University of Missouri-Rolla until he was hired by Brigham Young University in 2000.
Dorff is the founder of the NSF-funded Center for Undergraduate Research in Mathematics and the co-founder of the NSF-funded PIC Math program.
Awards and honors
From 2005 to 2006, Dorff was a Fulbright scholar in Poland.
In 2009, Dorff received the Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics.
In 2012, Dorff became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.