The Computer-Oriented Calculus Course at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsWilliam E. BoyceWilliam E. Boyce has his B.A. from Rhodes College and his M.S. and Ph.D. (1955) from Carnegie-Mellon University, where his dissertation director was George Handelman. He now occupies the Edward P. Hamilton Chair of Science Education at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Research interests include random and deterministic boundary value problems and their applications in continuum mechanics. With the late R. C. DiPrima he wrote Elementary Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems, now in its fifth edition. He enjoys the Adirondack Mountains and following the fortunes of the St. Louis Cardinals. His wife, Elsa K. Boyce, is also a mathematician; they have three children and one grandchild.Joseph G. EckerJoe Ecker is a professor of mathematics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he has taught since earning his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan in 1968. He has written over 50 research papers in optimization and operations research as well as two textbooks. He was a visiting professor in 1975–1976 at the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics in Belgium, and in 1982–1983 at Ecole Polytechnic in Lausanne, Switzerland. For the past five years, Joe has been active in innovative uses of technology in the calculus and workshop calculus courses.