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In the 1980s, Steen helped lead national efforts to modernize the teaching of calculus and other areas in undergraduate mathematics. He helped broaden the mathematics major at St. Olaf by focusing the students work on inquiry and investigation. With the help of his mathematical colleagues, Steen
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Chicago, Illinois, but was raised in Staten Island, New York. His mother was a singer at the N.Y. City Center Opera and his father conducted the Wagner College Choir. In 1961, Steen graduated from Luther College with a degree in mathematics and a minor in physics. In 1965 Steen
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In 1992, Steen went on leave from St. Olaf, he served as executive director of the
Mathematical Sciences Education Board at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC. In 1995, he returned to St. Olaf and began working on special projects for the Provost office. In the late 1990s, Steen
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At the beginning of Steen's career, he mainly focused on teaching and helping develop research experiences for undergraduates. His teaching led Steen to begin to investigate the links between mathematics and other fields. He wrote many articles aimed for a non-mathematical audience about new
196:"A Joyful Passion for Proofs: The Pied Piper of Mathematics." Review of The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdős and the Search for Mathematical Truth, by Paul Hoffman, Hyperion Press, 1998. American Journal of Psychology, Fall 2000, pp. 478–483.
190:"Analysis 2000: Challenges and Opportunities." One Hundred Years of L'Enseignement Mathématique: Moments of Mathematics Education in the Twentieth Century, Daniel Coray et al., editors. Genéve: L'Enseignement Mathématique 2003, pp. 191–211.
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worked as a writer and editor in pioneering grade-by-grade standards that helped meet the mathematical requirements of college as well as careers. The campaign for similar standards that is seen nowadays is an evolution of his former efforts.
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224:"Living with a New Mathematical Species." The Influence of Computers on Informatics and Its Teaching, A.G. Howson and J.-P. Kahane, editors. Cambridge University Press, 1986, pp. 52–60.
208:"Election Mathematics: Do All Those Numbers Mean What They Say?" in Readings in Public Sector Economics, Samuel Baker and Catherine Elliott, editors. D.C. Heath, 1989, pp. 308–315.
199:"Review" of A Mathematical Mystery Tour: Discovering the Truth and Beauty of the Cosmos, by A. K. Dewdney. Notices of the American Mathematical Society 47:2 (February 2000) 221–224.
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developments in mathematics. The majority of his work in the 1970s was regarding mathematical exposition, communicating mathematical research to students, teachers, and the public.
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193:"A Mind for Math." Review of The Math Gene: How Mathematical Thinking Evolved and Why Numbers are Like Gossip, by Keith Devlin. American Scientist, 88 (Nov.-Dec. 2000) 555–556.
184:'"The 'Gift' of Mathematics in the Era of Biology."' Math and Bio 2010: Linking Undergraduate Disciplines, Mathematical Association of America, 2005, pp. 13–25.
344:, Authors Mathematical Sciences Education Board, Lynn Arthur Steen, National Research Council, Editor Lynn Arthur Steen, Publisher National Academies Press, 1990
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made mathematics one of the five top majors for St. Olaf. St Olaf also became one of the nation's largest undergraduate producers in mathematical sciences.
227:"Mathematics: Our Invisible Culture," SCAN, (Newsletter of the Council for Liberal Learning of Association of American Colleges), 1:4 (Feb.-Mar. 1986) 3–4.
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217:"Ever Since Socrates. "Review of The Beauty of Doing Mathematics: Three Public Dialogues and Math! Encounters with High School Students, by
202:"Facing the Future: Mathematics for Everyone." Proceedings of ICMI-China Regional Conference on Mathematical Education, Beijing, 1991.
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280:"Fractals: A World of Nonintegral Dimensions." Science News 112 (20 August 1977) pp. 122–123.
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240:"John G. Kemeny: Computing Pioneer," The Two Year College Mathematics Journal 14 (1983) 18–35.
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295:"The Metamathematical World of Model Theory," Science News 107 (15 Feb. 1975) 108–111.
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283:"Catastrophe Theory: The First Decade," Science News 111 (2 April 1977) 218–219, 223.
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292:"Foundations of Mathematics: Unsolvable Problems," Science (18 July 1975) 209–210.
243:"Nonstandard Analysis," Encyclopædia Britannica Micopaedia, Second Edition, 1982.
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1992 - Award for Distinguished Service, The Mathematical Association of America.
268:"Linear Programming: A Solid New Algorithm." Science News (6 Oct. 1979) 234-236.
211:"Celebrating Mathematics," American Mathematical Monthly 95 (May 1988) 414–427.
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289:"Solving the Great Bubble Mystery." Science News 108 (20 Sept. 1975) 186-187.
286:"Solution of the Four Color Problem," Mathematics Magazine 49 (1976) 219–222.
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Mathematics Today: Twelve Informal Essays, (Editor), Springer-Verlag, 1978.
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249:"The Arithmetic of Apportionment," Science News 121 (8 May 1982) 317–318.
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274:"A New Perspective on Infinity." New Scientist (9 Nov. 1978) 448-451.
237:"Euler Glossary" editor, Mathematics Magazine 56 (1983) 316–325.
214:"The Science of Patterns," Science 240 (29 April 1988) 611–616.
259:"Computer Calculus." Science News 119 (18 April 1981) 250–251.
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