Richard Johnsonbaugh

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Richard F. Johnsonbaugh (born 1941) [1] is an American mathematician and computer scientist. His interests include discrete mathematics and the history of mathematics. He is the author of several textbooks.

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Johnsonbaugh earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Yale University, and then moved to the University of Oregon for graduate study. [2] He completed his Ph.D. at Oregon in 1969. His dissertation, I. Classical Fundamental Groups and Covering Space Theory in the Setting of Cartan and Chevalley; II. Spaces and Algebras of Vector-Valued Differentiable Functions, was supervised by Bertram Yood. [3] He also has a second master's degree in computer science from the University of Illinois at Chicago. [2]

He is currently professor emeritus at De Paul University. [2]

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  1. Library of congress catalog entry, retrieved 2019-04-11.
  2. 1 2 3 Author biography from Discrete Mathematics (8th ed.)
  3. Richard Johnsonbaugh at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. Review of Discrete Mathematics:
    • Charles F. Kelemen (1987), American Mathematical Monthly, JSTOR   2322865, doi : 10.2307/2322865
  5. Reviews of Foundations of Mathematical Analysis:
  6. Review of Algorithms: