Books in which Robert "Dr. Bob" Gardner is
Acknowledged or Thanked
God, the Devil, and Darwin: A Critique of Intelligent Design Theory, Niall Shanks with a Foreword by Richard Dawkins (Oxford University Press, 2007)
This is, as the title suggests, a critical review of "intelligent design theory," previously known as "scientific creationism." Niall Shanks was a colleague of mine at ETSU in the Department of Philosophy and Humanities for several years, before moving to Wichita State University shortly before the publication of this book.
Thomas' Calculus, Early Transcendentals, 12th edition, based on the original work by G. Thomas, as revised by M. Weir and J. Hass (Addison-Wesley/Pearson Education, 2010)
This is a very nice calculus text. I reviewed the 12th edition.
How to Count: An Introduction to Combinatorics and Its Applications, by Robert A. Beeler (Springer, 2015).
This is a book by one of my colleagues in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at ETSU. It is intended as a text for the ETSU "Applied Combinatorics and Problem Solving" (MATH 3340).
Applied Fourier Analysis: From Signal Processing to Medical Imaging (Birkhäuser/Springer, 2017)
This is an applied math book by one of my beloved colleagues from graduate school at Auburn University in the 1980s. I have slightly modified the cover in the following image.
Much More Than A Stooge: Shemp Howard, by Geoff Dale with a Foreword by Geri Howard Greenbaum (BearManor Media, 2023)
This is a new, thorough biography of one of the original Three Stooges, Shemp.
This work includes a photograph of me and two colleagues on page 171:
Pages 329 to 331 mention our work on using the Three Stooges in teaching statistics and our special Seminar on the History and Exploration of Math Problems ("S.H.E.M.P.")
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Last updated: April 18, 2024.