Dr.
Fred T. Howard
Professor of Mathematics
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Office
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Manchester 337 | |
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Phone
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(336) 758-5539 | |
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Home
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http://www.math.wfu.edu/Faculty/howard.html | |
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Email
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howard@wfu.edu | |
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Degrees
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BA Vanderbilt
(1961) MA in Mathematics, Vanderbilt (1963) PH.D. in Mathematics, Duke (1966) |
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Research Interests
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Number
Theory, Combinatorial Analysis, Fibonacci Numbers President Emeritus of the Fibonacci Association, an international mathematics organization devoted to the study of special number sequences |
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Papers
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Some 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. |
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Classes
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Number Theory, Combinatorial Analysis, Calculus, Algebra, Linear Algebra, Differential Equations | |
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Personal
Interests
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Tennis,
bridge, classical music. |