Faculty Info: Lester H. Lange
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LESTER H. LANGE Professor Emeritus, Mathematics and Moss Landing Marine Laboratories A.B., Valparaiso University M.S., Stanford University Ph.D., Notre Dame University Email: lange@cruzio.com |
Specific Research Interests: In 1970, not many years after the acquisition of an old cannery building led to the now world-famous MLML, Dr. Lange became Dean of Science at SJSU. He paid personal attention to nurturing the fledgling labs, expanding the consortium from its original three campuses (now seven), dramatically improving its quarters (destroyed by the 1989 earthquake), and increasing the Office of the Chancellor's attention to MLML. This attention yielded improved budgetary treatment of MLML by the entire CSU and led to a critical appreciation of the role of research in the CSU, which began as "mere" teachers colleges where research was not funded. Dr. Lange regards bringing Dr. John Martin to the Directorship of MLML in 1977 as a professional and personal highlight of Dr. Lange's long academic career. MLML is now the crowning jewel of research of the entire CSU. Since retiring in 1988, Dr. Lange has served the directors, professors, and students. He is also one of the founders of the Friends of MLML. Current Projects: (1) Geometry; (2) Linear algebra; (3) Vector spaces; (4) Mathematics education Selected Publications: Lange, L.H. 1995. Did Plutarch get Archimedes' wishes right?. The College Mathematics Journal 26:199-204 (This paper and its bibliography give much information on the Archimedes symbol that is the subject of the artpiece in the window of the main entrance foyer at MLML) Lange, L.H. and J.W. Miller. 1992. A random ladder game: permutations, eigenvalues, and convergence of Markov chains. The College Mathematics Journal 23:373-385 (Recipient of 1993 George Polya Award of the Mathematical Association of America) Lange, L.H. and G.D. Chakerian. 1971. Geometric extremum problems. Mathematics Magazine March:57-69 (Recipient of the Lester R. Ford Award of the Mathematical Association of America for distinguished expository writing in mathematics) Lange, L.H. 1960. Sur les cercles de remplissage non-euclidiens. Annales Scientifiques de l'Ecole Normal Superieure (Paris) 77:257-280 |
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