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Ph.D. Mathematics, University of Massachusetts, May 1981
M.A. Mathematics, University of Oregon, June 1969
B.A. Magna Cum Laude with Highest Honors in Mathematics, Williams College, June 1967

Number theory (especially additive problems and prime numbers), complex analysis, polynomials over finite fields.

Additive Number Theory of Polynomials over a Finite Field (with David R. Hayes), Oxford University Press, England, 1991.

Common-Sense BASIC: Structured Programming with Microsoft QuickBASIC (with Alice M. Dean), Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., San Diego, 1991.

SELECTED PAPERS

"Toward a Complete Twin Primes Theorem for Polynomials over Finite Fields", in Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Finite Fields and their Applications, 2008, to appear.
"Integers and Polynomials: Comparing the Close Cousins Z and Fq[x]", coauthored with Gary Mullen and Ken Hicks, The Mathematical Intelligencer, Volume 27, Number 2, Spring 2005, pages 26-34.
"Twin Irreducible Polynomials over Finite Fields", coauthored with Gary Mullen and Ken Hicks, in Finite Fields with Applications to Coding theory, Cryptography and Related Fields, Springer, 2002.
"Some Numerical Implications of the Hardy and Littlewood Analysis of the 3-Primes Problem", The Ramanujan Journal, Vol. 3 (1999), pp. 239-280.

"A Complete Vinogradov 3-Primes Theorem Under the Riemann Hypothesis" (with J-M. Deshouillers, H. te Riele, and D. Zinoviev), Electronic Research Announcements of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 3 (1997), pp. 99-104.

"The Polynomial 3-Primes Conjecture", Computer Assisted Analysis and Modeling on the IBM 3090, Baldwin Press, Athens, Georgia 1992.

"A Complete Solution to the Polynomial 3-Primes Problem" (with David R. Hayes), Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 24 (1991), pp. 363-369.

"A Goldbach 3-Primes Theorem for Polynomials of Low Degree over Finite Fields of Characteristic 2", Journal of Number Theory, Vol. 29 (1988), pp. 345-363.

"A Goldbach Theorem for Polynomials of Low Degree over Odd Finite Fields", Acta Arithmetica, Vol. 42 (1983), pp. 329-365.