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Alfred Brousseau

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25: 163:, in 1937. In 1941 Brousseau was appointed principal of Sacred Heart High School in San Francisco, and later was appointed provincial of the Christian Brothers of the District of California. He returned to St. Mary's College in 1959 and became chair of the School of Science. Between this period and 1978, Alfred served both president and treasurer of the Northern Section of the California Mathematics Council and later as president of the entire State Council. 291: 304: 297: 193:
magazine, "We got a group of people together in 1963, and just like a bunch of nuts, we started a mathematics magazine ... tend to find an esthetic satisfaction in it. They think that there's some kind of mystical connection between these numbers and the universe."
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in San Francisco, California. He continued teaching at the secondary level until 1930 when he was assigned to teach at St. Mary's College while subsequently pursuing a
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and related fields. In 1969 Brousseau commented on the Fibonacci Association (and its associated journal, the
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In 1926, while still a college student, Brousseau began teaching at
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on 31 July 1923 and advanced to the scholasticate on the campus of
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and amassed a collection of in excess of 20,000 color
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