Office

Manchester 342

Phone

(336) 758-5539

Home Page

http://www.math.wfu.edu/Faculty/howard.html

Email

howard 'at' wfu.edu

Degrees

BA Vanderbilt (1961)
MA in Mathematics, Vanderbilt (1963)
PH.D. in Mathematics, Duke (1966)

Research Interests

Number Theory, Combinatorial Analysis, Fibonacci Numbers

President Emeritus of the Fibonacci Association, an international mathematics organization devoted to the study of special number sequences

Selected Papers

Polynomials Related to the Bessel Function. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 210 (1975), 233-248.

Sums of Powers of the Zeros of the Bessel Polynomials, Mathematika 37 (1990), 305-315.

Congruences for the Stirling Numbers and Associated Stirling Numbers, Acta Arithmetica LV (1990), 29-41.

Applications of a Recurrence for the Bernoulli Numbers, Journal of Number Theory 52 (1995), 157-172.

A Generalized Chinese Remainder Theorem. The College Mathematics Journal 33 (2002), 279-282.

Notes on Degenerate Numbers (with M. Cenkci). Discrete Mathematics 307 (2007), 2359-2375.

Classes

Number Theory, Combinatorial Analysis, Calculus, Algebra, Linear Algebra, Differential Equations

Personal Interests

Tennis, bridge, classical music.