Haverford College

Professor Emeritus, Mathematics

Born on March 18, 1927 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Married to Maxine Libros of Brooklyn, New York.

Research

• Nonlinear Optimization, locating maxima and minima of differentiable functions
• Nonstandard Analysis, generalizing the intuitive notion of infinitesimals (PDF: English or French)

Education

• Purdue University, Major in Electrical Engineering, 1943-44 (no degree)
• B.S. in Physics, University of Chicago, 1947
• M.S. in Physics, University of Chicago, 1950
• Ph.D. in Physics, University of Chicago, 1954

Experience

Teaching

• Professor of Mathematics, Haverford College, 1981-91
• Professor of Physics, Haverford College, 1961-81
• Visiting Associate Professor, Univ. of Washington, 1958

Research

• Nordica Fellow, Trondheim University, Norway, 1976-77
• Fulbright-Hays Research Fellow, Aarhus University, Denmark, 1966-67
• Consultant, Argonne National Laboratory, 1961-1970
• Associate Physicist, Argonne National Laboratory, 1956-61
• Research Associate, Enrico Fermi Institute for Nuclear Studies, University of Chicago, 1954-56
• Research Director, Nuclear Instrument and Chemical Corporation, Chicago, Illinois, 1948-54

Publications Other Scholarly Work