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Mathematics Professor Bruce Torrence |
11/15/12Randolph-Macon College
Mathematics Professor Bruce Torrence is the co-author of two articles selected for
The Best Writing on Mathematics 2012 (Princeton University Press). The yearly anthology brings together the year’s best mathematics writing from around the world.
A review by the
New York Journal of Books says “
The Best Writing on Mathematics 2012 will be sure to delight all who enjoy or are just curious about math. This year’s best essays on mathematics cover a wide variety of topics including biography, geometry, origami, and math as it relates to music, dance, philosophy, and teaching. Such a good collection that I can’t wait for next year and
The Best Writing on Mathematics 2013.”
“My articles describe how to use mathematics to warp photographic imagery for artistic purposes,” explains Torrence. “They are co-authored with David Swart, a digital-imaging specialist who works for Christie Digital in Canada. The title for the combined pair of articles is
Mathematics meets photography: the viewable sphere.”
Torrence joined the faculty in 1993. He earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Tufts University, a master’s degree in mathematics from the University of Maryland and a Ph.D. in mathematics from University of Virginia.
In 2008 he received the John M. Smith Teaching Award from the Mathematical Association of America. In 2009, he was named the first recipient of the
Dorothy and Muscoe Garnett Professorship in Mathematics. Torrence, the co-editor of
Math Horizons, serves as chair of the Department of Mathematics. He and R-MC Mathematics Professor Eve Torrence are the authors of
The Student’s Introduction to Mathematica – A Handbook for Precalculus, Calculus, and Linear Algebra (1999, Cambridge University Press). A second edition of the book was released in 2009.