Deborah Jo Bennett (born 1950)[1] is an American mathematician, mathematics educator, and book author. She is a professor of mathematics at New Jersey City University.[2]

Education and career edit

Bennett is originally from Tuscaloosa, Alabama; her father was a military officer and her mother worked as a computer systems analyst.[1] She majored in mathematics at the University of Alabama, graduating in 1972, and worked as a researcher at the Institute for Defense Analysis and as an operations researcher for the US Government Accountability Office before returning to graduate school for a master's degree in operations research at George Washington University in 1980.[3]

After a year in Ghana teaching mathematics through the Peace Corps, she became a mathematics instructor at Pace University from 1981 to 1987, and at Farmingdale State College from 1984 to 1993. While doing this, she also completed a Ph.D. in mathematics education at New York University in 1993.[3] Her dissertation, The Development of the Mathematical Concept of Randomness: Educational Implications, was supervised by Kenneth P. Goldberg.[4]

She joined New Jersey City University as an assistant professor of mathematics in 1993, adding a concurrent appointment in education in 1999. She has since become a full professor, and served two terms as president of the University Senate.[3]

Books edit

Bennett is the coauthor of the textbook Algebra for All (with Phillip Aikey and Julio Guillen, McGraw-Hill, 1997).[3] She is also the author of two popular mathematics books, Randomness (Harvard University Press, 1998),[5] and Logic Made Easy: How to Know When Language Deceives You (W. W. Norton, 2004).[6] Her book Logic Made Easy was listed as an Outstanding Academic Title in 2004 by Choice Reviews.[1]

References edit

  1. ^ a b c "Bennett, Deborah J. 1950-", Encyclopedia.com, retrieved 2021-03-06
  2. ^ "Deborah Bennett, Professor, Mathematics", Faculty & Staff Directory, New Jersey City University, retrieved 2021-03-06
  3. ^ a b c d Curriculum vitae (PDF), April 2019, retrieved 2021-03-06
  4. ^ Deborah J. Bennett at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ^ Reviews of Randomness:
  6. ^ Reviews of Logic Made Easy: