Rick Mabry is an associate professor of mathematics at LSU-Shreveport, where he spends far too much time making mathematical pictures on the computer screen, and too little time doing measure theory. His New Year's resolution for 1997 was going to be to restrain his computer graphics habit, but then he got involved with the folks mentioned below. Maybe next year.
Rick Mabry
Department of Mathematics
LSU in Shreveport
Shreveport, LA 71115
rmabry@softdisk.com
rmabry@lsus.edu
Stan Wagon uses Mathematica extensively in his research, teaching, and exposition and is especially appreciative of the new ways in which Mathematica allows us to look at mathematical objects. He is the author or co-author of several books, including Mathematica in Action , VisualDSolve: Visualizing Differential Equation with Mathematica, and Animating Calculus. He also teaches a high-altitude Mathematica course every summer in the mountains of Colorado.
Stan Wagon
Department of Mathematics
Macalester College
St. Paul, MN 55105
wagon@macalester.edu
Doris Schattschneider, professor of mathematics at Moravian College, is the author of Visions of Symmetry, a definitive book on the symmetry work of M. C. Escher. An invitation to lecture at the June 1996 combinatorics conference in honor of Herb Wilf provided the impetus to reexamine Escher’s work with combinatorial patterns. She is a Mathematica novice and is happy to see two Mathematica mavens automate what Escher painstakingly did by hand in the 1940s.
Doris Schattschneider
Department of Mathematics
Moravian College
Bethlehem, PA 18018
schattdo@moravian.edu