Michael Starbird

Michael Starbird
Michael Starbird in 2008

Michael P. Starbird is a Professor of Mathematics and a University of Texas Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his B.A from Pomona College and his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Starbird’s mathematical specialty is topology. He joined the University of Texas at Austin as a faculty member in 1974, and served as an associate dean in Natural Sciences from 1989 to 1997. He serves on the national education committees of the Mathematical Association of America and the American Mathematical Society.

He has accepted visiting positions at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, The University of California at San Diego, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He is a member of the Academy of Distinguished Teachers.

Starbird seeks to make sophisticated mathematics accessible to the public. His recent book, The Heart of Mathematics: An Invitation to Effective Thinking, coauthored with Edward B. Burger, was acclaimed by the American Mathematical Monthly as possibly the best math book for nonmathematicians it had ever reviewed. The book won a 2001 Robert W. Hamilton Book Award.

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Teaching awards

Courses for The Teaching Company

Starbird has developed several courses for The Teaching Company:

  • Change and Motion: Calculus Made Clear
  • Joy of Thinking: The Beauty and Power of Classical Mathematical Ideas
  • Meaning from Data: Statistics Made Clear
  • What Are the Chances? Probability Made Clear

References

  1. ^ "The Mathematical Association of America's Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics". Mathematical Association of America. http://www.maa.org/Awards/Haimo_Recipients.html. Retrieved 23 January 2010. 

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