Martha Siegel
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "about". Martha Jochnowitz Siegel is an American applied mathematician, probability theorist and mathematics educator who served as the editor of Mathematics Magazine from 1991 to 1996.Template:R In 2017 she won the Yueh-Gin Gung and Dr. Charles Y. Hu Award for Distinguished Service of the Mathematical Association of America for "her remarkable leadership in guiding the national conversation on undergraduate mathematics curriculum".Template:R She was a faculty member in the mathematics department of Towson University from 1971 until 2015, when she became a professor emerita.Template:R
Education and career
Siegel grew up in Brooklyn, the daughter of civil engineer Nat Jochnowitz.Template:R She became interested in mathematics through her father's interest in mathematical puzzles,Template:R and through the calculation of baseball statistics for the Brooklyn Dodgers.Template:R She did her undergraduate studies in mathematics at Russell Sage College, a small women's college in Troy, New York, while also taking classes at the nearby men-only Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,Template:R as at that time Russell Sage had no mathematics department.Template:R At Russell Sage, she was a Kellas honor student, and president of the science club.Template:R She completed her Ph.D. in 1969 at the University of Rochester; her dissertation, On Birth and Death Processes, was supervised by Johannes Kemperman.Template:R During graduate school and until her 1971 move to Towson, she was on the faculty at Goucher College.Template:R
Contributions
At Towson, in 1981, Siegel founded an innovative and still-ongoing undergraduate applied mathematics program involving projects connected to local business and government. She is a co-author of the discrete mathematics and precalculus textbooks Finite Mathematics and Its Applications and Functioning in the Real World. She also served as chair of a committee of the Mathematical Association of America charged with producing the 2015 edition of their MAA Curriculum Guide to Undergraduate Majors in the Mathematical Sciences.Template:R
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