TOM M. APOSTOL
Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus
Creator and Project Director, Project MATHEMATICS!

B.S. in Chemical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, 1944
M.S. in Mathematics, University of Washington, Seattle, 1946
Ph.D. in Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, 1948

Research Interests

Analytic number theory, mathematics education

Recent Publications

• The Method of Sweeping Tangents. Mathematical Gazette, 92, No. 525, Nov. 2008, 396-417 (with Mamikon A. Mnatsakanian).
• New Descriptions of Conics via Twisted Cylinders, Focal Disks, and Directors. American Mathematical Monthly, 115, Nov. 2008, 795-812 (with Mamikon A. Mnatsakanian).
• A New Look at the So-called Trammel of Archimedes, American Mathematial Monthy, 116, Feb. 2009, 115-133 (with Mamikon A. Mnatsakanian).
• New Insight Into Cycloidal Areas, American Mathematical Monthly, 116, Aug.-Sept. 2009, 598-611 (with Mamikon A. Mnatsakanian).
• Tanvolutes: Generalized Involutes, American Mathematical Monthly, 117, Oct. 2010 (with Mamikon A. Mnatsakanian).
• Ellipse to Hyperbola: "With This String I Thee Wed," Mathematics Magazine (to appear in 2010) (with Mamikon A. Mnatsakanian).
• Sums of Squares of Integers in Arithmetic Progression, Mathematical Gazette, 95, No. xx July 2011, pp. xxx (with Mamikon A. Mnatsakanian).
• Zeta and Related Functions, Chapter 25 in Digital Library of Mathematical Functions, National Institute of Science and Technology, Cambridge University Press, 2010.
• Functions of Number Theory, Chapter 27 in Digital Library of Mathematical Functions, National Institute of Science and Technologhy, Cambridge University Press, 2010

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