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<!DOCTYPE HTML> <html> <head> <title>Publications</title> <meta name="description" content="website description" /> <meta name="keywords" content="website keywords, website keywords" /> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../css/style.css" />  <script type="text/javascript" src="../js/modernizr-1.5.min.js"></script> </head> <body> <div id="main"> <header> <span class="right"><img title="Photo of Steve Kifowit" src="at_board.jpg" alt="Website author, Steve Kifowit, pointing at the projector screen as he gives a presentation." /></span> <div id="logo"> <div id="logo_text">  <center> <h1><a href="../index.html">Steve_Kifowit</a></h1> <h2><a href="https://www.waubonsee.edu/" style="text-decoration: none; color: white">Waubonsee Community College</a></h2> <h2>Assistant Professor of Mathematics</h2> </center> </div> </div> <nav> <div id="menu_container"> <ul class="sf-menu" id="nav"> <li><a href="../index.html">Home</a></li> <li><a href="../classes.html">Class Information</a></li> <li><a href="../archives/archive.html">Archives</a></li> <li><a href="index.html">Publications</a></li> <li><a href="../student_research.html">Student Research</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.waubonsee.edu/programs-courses/programs-subject/science-technology-engineering-and-mathematics/mathematics">WCC Mathematics</a></li> <li><a href="../me.html">About Me</a></li> </ul> </div> </nav> </header> <div id="site_content"> <div class="content"> <h1>Selected Publications and Presentations</h1> <h2>Publications</h2> <p><em>Exceptional Bobo Numbers</em> (with Alan Mitchell and Samuel C. Zandi), submitted for publication (Draft available upon request). (The exceptional Bobo numbers are <a href="http://oeis.org/A277603">A277603</a> in the <a href="http://oeis.org/">OEIS</a>.)</p> <p><em>The Falling Ladder Paradox Revisited</em> (with Brittany A. Burke and Zach Jackson), The College Mathematics Journal, 49 (2018), pp. 36-40, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/07468342.2017.1388690"> https://doi.org/10.1080/07468342.2017.1388690.</a> (Preprint available <a href="cmjladder.pdf">here</a>.) </p> <p><a href="bobo_cmj.pdf"><em>A Closer Look at Bobo's Sequence</em></a> (with Daniel T. Clancy), The College Mathematics Journal, 45 (2014), pp. 199-206. (The Bobo sequence is <a href="http://oeis.org/A242679">A242679</a> in the <a href="http://oeis.org/">OEIS</a>. Here are the <a href="bobo_list.txt">first 845,157 Bobo numbers</a>.)</p> <p><a href="sum2.pdf"><em>Proof Without Words: A Series Involving Harmonic Sums</em></a>, Mathematics Magazine, 80 (2007), p. 83.</p> <p><a href="harmapa.pdf"><em>The Harmonic Series Diverges Again and Again</em></a> (with Terra A. Stamps), The AMATYC Review, 27 (2006), pp. 31-43. (An unpublished addendum to this article is available <a href="harm2.pdf">here</a>.)</p> <p><a href="part.pdf"><em>Proof Without Words: A Partial Fraction Decomposition</em></a>, The College Mathematics Journal, 36 (2005), p. 122.</p> <p><a href="root.pdf"><em>The Method of Gnomons and a New Scheme for Approximating Square Roots</em></a>, The AMATYC Review, 24 (2003), pp. 57-63.</p> <h2>Dissertation</h2> <p><a href="kifowit_diss.pdf"><em>A Divide-and-Conquer Split Schur Algorithm</em></a>, Northern Illinois University, August 2015</p> <h2>Conference Presentations</h2> <p>There's More Than One Way to Integrate that Function (<a href="int_beam_h.pdf">Slides</a>), 44th Annual Conference of the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges; Orlando, FL; November 15, 2018</p> <p>The Harmonic Series for Every Occasion (<a href="harm_beam_h.pdf">Slides</a>), 43rd Annual Conference of the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges; San Diego, CA; November 12, 2017</p> <p>Bobo Numbers, Bobbers, and Bears--Experiences in Undergraduate Research (<a href="denver.pdf">Handout</a> | <a href="denver2.pdf">Slides</a>), 42nd Annual Conference of the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges; Denver, CO; November 17, 2016</p> <p>Bobo Numbers, Bobbers, and Bears--Experiences in Undergraduate Research (<a href="sheboy2.pdf">Slides</a>), 23rd Annual Conference of the Wisconsin Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges; Shebogan, WI; September 24, 2016</p> <p>Serious About that 1 Series (<a href="austin1.pdf">Handout</a> | <a href="austin2.pdf">Slides</a>), 37th Annual Conference of the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges; Austin, TX; November 10, 2011</p> <p>Serious About that 1 Series (<a href="that1_1.pdf">Handout</a> | <a href="that1_2.pdf">Slides</a>), 36th Annual Conference of the Illinois Mathematics Association of Community Colleges; Monticello, IL; April 1, 2011</p> <p>Uncommon Approaches to Some Common Calculus Problems (<a href="lv1.pdf">Handout</a> | <a href="lv2.pdf">Slides</a>), 35th Annual Conference of the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges; Las Vegas, NV; November 12, 2009</p> <p>Serious About the Harmonic Series II (<a href="al1.pdf">Handout</a> | <a href="al2.pdf">Slides</a>), 31st Annual Conference of the Illinois Mathematics Association of Community Colleges; Monticello, IL; March 31, 2006</p> <p>Serious About the Harmonic Series (<a href="sd1.pdf">Handout</a> | <a href="sd2.pdf">Slides</a>), 31st Annual Conference of the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges; San Diego, CA; November 10, 2005</p> <p><a href="orl.pdf">Assessing Conceptual Understanding in the Calculus Sequence</a>, Placement and Assessment Themed Sessions, 30th Annual Conference of the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges; Orlando, FL; November 18, 2004</p> <p><a href="phoenix.pdf">Tabular Integration by Parts - A Jewel in the Rough</a>, 28th Annual Conference of the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges; Phoenix, AZ; November 16, 2002</p> <p><a href="ilas.pdf">A Superfast Version of the Split Schur Algorithm</a>, 7th Annual Conference of the International Linear Algebra Society; Madison, WS; June 5, 1998</p> <h2>Unpublished Articles</h2> <p><a href="harm2.pdf">More Proofs of Divergence of the Harmonic Series</a></p> <p><a href="ibyp.pdf">Some Sums via Integration by Parts</a></p> <p><a href="e.pdf">A Remarkably Elementary Proof of the Irrationality of <em>e</em></a></p> <p><br><em>Last updated June 16, 2019</em></p> </div> </div> <footer> <p><a href="../index.html">steve kifowit's homepage</a> | <a href="http://www.css3templates.co.uk">design from css3templates.co.uk</a></p> </footer> </div> <p> </p>  <script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery.easing-sooper.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery.sooperfish.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> $(document).ready(function() { $('ul.sf-menu').sooperfish(); }); </script> </body> </html>

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