CURRICULM VITA

James D. Harper

DEGREES AWARDED

Ph.D., Mathematics August 1984 University of Oregon

M.A., Mathematics August 1980 University of Oregon

B.A., Mathematics June 1978 Humboldt State University

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Full Professor Central Washington University

Since September 2000

Associate Professor Central Washington University

September 1994 to August 2000

Assistant Professor Central Washington University

September 1988 to August 1994

Assistant Professor Eastern Washington University

September 1987 to August 1988

Assistant Professor St. Cloud State University

September 1984 to August 1987

Graduate Teaching University of Oregon

Fellow September 1979 to August 1984

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

• “Stopping Strategies and Gambler’s Ruin”, Mathematics Magazine, October 2005 (co-authored with Ken Ross).
• “Another Simple Proof of ”, American Mathematical Monthly,

June/July 2003, vol. 110, no. 6.

• Dodgson’s Curious Division Algorithms”, Knight Letter , no. 60, Summer 1999

• “The Golden Ratio is Less Than π²/6”, Mathematics Magazine, October 1996

• “A Note on Evaluating a Certain Orthant Probability”, (co-authored with James Kepner

and Sandy Keith), American Statistician, vol. 43, no. 1. Feb. 1989

• “Estimating the Sum of Alternating Series”, College Mathematics Journal, March 1988

PRESENTATIONS (since September 1994)

All presentations were made at the regional meetings of the Pacific Northwest Section of the

Mathematical Association of America (MAA), except where noted.

• Proofs That I Have Met or Why I am going Bald

June, 2006, Ashland, OR

• A Few Moments with the Cantor Function

April 2005, Tacoma, WA

• Another Look at Gambler’s Ruin

June 2004, Anchorage, AK

· A Simple Proof of

June 2002, Portland, OR

• Euler, Phi and

June, 2000, Vancouver, B.C.

• Gamma-Zeta-Gamma

March, 1999, Salem, OR

• How to Find Eigenvalues with Your TI-83

June, 1998, Pullman, WA

• Approximating Angles with Pythagorean Triangles

June, 1997, Bellingham, WA

• Pythagorean Quadruples

The Washington Community College Conference, May 1997

Chelan, WA

• The Golden Ratio is Less Than π²/6

March, 1996,Portland, OR

• Simpson’s Rule for Infinite Series

The Washington Community College Conference, April 1995

Wenatchee, WA

SESSION ORGANIZER

• Introduction to Proof Writing Courses

June, 2006, Ashland, OR

OTHER MEETINGS ATTENDED

• Regional Meeting of the MAA, April, 2007

McMinnville, Oregon

• Real Analysis Exchange annual conference, June 2005

Walla Walla, Washington

• Regional meeting of the MAA, June, 2003

Walla Walla , Washington

• Joint Meetings of the MAA and the AMS, January, 2002

San Diego, CA

• Regional meeting of the of the MAA, April, 2001,

Seattle, WA

• Joint Meetings of the MAA and the AMS, January, 2000

Washington, D.C.

WORKSHOP AND PANEL DISSCUSSIONS

• Panel Discussion: The Bridge Course

Joint Winter Meetings of the AMS-MAA

January, 2007, New Orleans

• What are your Math Majors Learning

Regional Meeting of the Pacific Northwest Section of the MAA

June 2004, Anchorage, AK

• Peer Evaluation of Teaching

CWU, Spring 2003

• Fibonacci and Catalan numbers

Joint Winter Meetings of the AMS-MAA

Washington D.C., January, 2000

FACULTY PRESENTATIONS

• Gamma-Zeta-Gamma

Spring, 1999

• Pythagorean Quadruples (3 lectures)

Winter, 1997

GRADUATE PROGRAM

Served as thesis director for:

• George Egbert (MAT, Summer 2003)
• Eric Mohler (MAT, Summer 2002)
• Eric Oberle (MAT, Summer 2002)
• Tammy Markham (MAT, Summer 2000)
• Jody Olson (MAT, Summer 2000)
• Wendy Maybin (M.S., Summer 1995)
• Carolyn Schut (M.S., Summer 1995)
• Rick Woodmansee (M.S., Winter 1995)
• Ming Li Shen (M.S., Spring 1994)
• Kris Grapp (M.S., Spring 1992)

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH and STUDENT MENTORING

• Kory McElravy, Susan Santucci & Star McQuiston

Presented their paper at the Washington Community College Conference

Approximating Angles with Pythagorean Triangles

May, 1997, Chelan WA

• Chris Connors wrote a paper:

The Mathematics of Identification Numbers

Fall, 1997

• Dustin Mixon, McNair Scholar, wrote a paper:

Special Cases of Dirichlet’s Theorem

Fall, 2003

• Brian Sherson presented his paper

Finding Polynomials that Annihilate Algebraic Numbers

at the Spring Meeting of Pacific Northwest Section of the MAA

McMinnville, OR, April 2007

• Mike Leatherman presented his paper

Evaluating

at the Spring Meeting of Pacific Northwest Section of the MAA

McMinnville, OR, April 2007

UNIVERSITY and DEPARTMENT COMMITTEES

• SUB Board

Faculty advisor, Sept 1992 to June 1995

• Library Advisory Committee

Sept 1996 to June 1999

• Math Department Search Committees

1995, 1996, 2000 and 2001, 2003 (summer), 2004 (summer)

• Math Department Personnel Committee

September 2000 to June 2005

UNIVERSITY and DEPARTMENT SERVICE

• Co-Chair, Standards and Outcomes for Math 260, 265, 365, 376 & 377, 2005-06
• Chair, Mathematics Department Invited Speaker Committee, Fall 2005.

• Course Development: Math 372 (“Complex Analysis”), Winter 2006

• Liaison for the Mathematical Association of America to the mathematics department, Fall 1997 to present
• Mathematics Department library representative, Fall 1996 to present.
• Chair, Michael Arcidiacono Scholarship Committee, Winter 2006
• Faculty Senator for the mathematics department, Fall 2003 – Spring 2006.
• Chair, Invited Speaker Committee, Fall, 2005 (The department invited Jenny Quinn for a campus visit and presentation, October 2005)
• Chair, Standards and Outcomes for Math 260, 265, 365, 376 & 377, 2005-06

REVIEWER

• Refereed paper, The Recreational Gambler, for Mathematics Magazine (Oct., 2006)

• Refereed paper, Euler and Bernoulli Numbers and Series Representation of Some Elementary Functions, for Mathematics Magazine (April, 2005).

• Review and critiqued of selected chapters of Topics in Contemporary Mathematics (Hirschelder & Paradise) for John Wiley & Sons (June, 2003).

• Reviewed and critiqued of the first edition of Mathematics Beyond the Numbers (Gilbert & Hatcher), for John Wiley & Sons (March, 2003)

• Reviewed and critiqued of the first four chapters of the fifth edition of Discrete and Combinatorial Mathematics (Grimaldi), for Addison & Wesley Publications (June, 2002).

• Reviewed textbook proposal, Discrete Mathematics (Ferland), for Addison & Wesley Publications (May 2001).

• Performed a comparative review of textbook proposals, Discrete Mathematics (Gossett) and Introduction to Discrete Mathematics through the Analysis of Puzzles and Games (Ensley & Crawley) as submitted to Addison &Wesley Publications (March 2001).

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

American Mathematical Society (AMS), since 1981

Mathematical Association of America (MAA), since 1981

April , 2007