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John F. Putz, Ph.D.

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Selected Articles

  • John F. Putz.  "Investigating Polytopes in the Fourth Dimension by Building Models."  PRIMUS.  2013.
  • John F. Putz (with Tim Sipka).  "On Generalizing the Pythagorean Theorem."  College Mathematics Journal.  2003. Vol. 34. No. 4. 291-295.  September 2003.
  • John F. Putz.  "Going Out On a Limb: A Reading and Writing Course about the Fourth Dimension."  PRIMUS.  2001. Vol. 11. No. 1. 1-15.  March 2001.
  • John F. Putz (with Carrie Morjan).  "Preference for the Golden Rectangle: A Student/Faculty Research Project."  PRIMUS.  2001. Vol. 11. No. 4. 370-383.  December 2001.
  • John F. Putz.  "Animated Demonstrations for Multivariable Calculus."  Electronic Proceedings of the Tenth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics.  http://archives.math.utk.edu/ICTCM/EP-10.html.  February 1998.
  • John F. Putz.  "The CAS in Multivariable Calculus."  Electronic Proceedings of the Eighth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics.  http://archives.math.utk.edu/ICTCM/EP-8.html.  February 1996.
  • John F. Putz.  "The Golden Section and the Piano Sonatas of Mozart."  Mathematics Magazine.  1995. Vol. 68. No. 4. 275-282.  October 1995.
  • John F. Putz, Ph.D..  "Using Maple V in Calculus: Getting Started at a Liberal Arts College."  Proceedings of the Fifth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics.  1994. 803-811
  • John F. Putz, Ph.D..  "Pascal Polytopes: An Extension to N Dimensions of Pascal’s Triangle."  College Mathematics Journal.  1986. Vol. 17. No. 2. 144-155.
  • John F. Putz, Ph.D..  "When Line Symmetry Implies Point Symmetry."  Mathematical Gazette.  1986. Vol. 70. No. 452. 129-130.

 

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Although William Palmer stuttered throughout his childhood, he developed a love for words that continues to this day.

“Stuttering was a wound in my life, but inside this wound I found a gift — the ability to write and the ability to teach writing,” the professor of English says.

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