Judith Gersting

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Judith Lee MacKenzie Gersting (born August 20, 1940)[1] is an American mathematician, computer scientist, and textbook author. She is a professor emerita of computer science at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis[2] and at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo.[3]

Education and career

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Gersting graduated from Stetson University in 1962,[4] and completed a Ph.D. in mathematics in 1969 at Arizona State University. Her dissertation, Some Results on t-Regressive Isols, concerned recursive function theory and was supervised by Matt Hassett.[5][6]

After holding a faculty position in the department of mathematical sciences at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) for ten years, and becoming a full professor there, she spent a year at the University of Central Florida before returning to IUPUI in 1981 as professor of mathematics and acting chair of the department of computer and information science.[4] She came to the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo in 1990,[7] and chaired the computer science department there for many years. After retiring from the University of Hawaiʻi, she became a part-time faculty member at IUPUI.[3]

Books

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Gersting's books include:

  • Abstract Algebra: A First Look (with Joseph E. Kuczkowski, Marcel Dekker, 1977)[8]
  • The Metric System (with Elaine V. Alton, Cummings, 1977)[9]
  • Yes–No; Stop–Go: Some Patterns in Mathematical Logic (with Joseph E. Kuczkowski and Don Madden, Crowell, 1977)[10]
  • Mathematical Structures for Computer Science (W. H. Freeman, 1982; 7th ed., 2014)[11]
  • Technical Calculus with Analytic Geometry (Wadsworth, 1984; Dover, 1992)[12]
  • The Computer: History, Workings, Uses & Limitations (with Michael C. Gemignani, Ardsley House, 1988)[13]
  • The Programming Process with Pascal (West Publishing, 1989)
  • Invitation to Computer Science (with G. Michael Schneider, West Publishing, 1995; 8th ed., Cengage, 2018)
  • Visual Basic Programming: A Laboratory Approach (Computer Science Press, 1996)

With Henry M. Walker, she was co-chair and co-editor of the annual symposium on computer science education of SIGCSE in 2002.[14]

Recognition

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The University of Hawaii system awarded Gersting the Regents’ Excellence in Teaching Award in 2006.[7]

References

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  1. ^ Birth date from Library of Congress catalogy entry, retrieved 2021-03-09
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  5. ^ Judith Gersting at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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  8. ^ Reviews of Abstract Algebra: T. W. Hungerford, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).; D. Simson, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  9. ^ Review of The Metric System: Loren C. Larson (1977), Amer. Math. Monthly, JSTOR 2321279
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  11. ^ Reviews of Mathematical Structures for Computer Science: Miklós Bóna (2012), MAA Reviews, [1]; Edward Dubinsky (1984), Amer. Math. Monthly, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)., JSTOR 2322156; U.Klemm, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).; E. Keith Lloyd (1988), Math. Gaz., Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)., JSTOR 3618023; Anthony Ralston (1983), American Scientist, JSTOR 27852312
  12. ^ Review of Technical Calculus with Analytic Geometry: Hung Dinh (1993), Amer. Math. Monthly, JSTOR 2324233
  13. ^ Review of The Computer: Harold Borko, ACM Computing Reviews
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