{"id":314,"date":"2017-10-17T16:34:21","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T16:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-mscs\/facultystaff\/davidbressoud\/"},"modified":"2022-05-31T19:07:36","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T19:07:36","slug":"davidbressoud","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/mscs\/facultystaff\/davidbressoud\/","title":{"rendered":"David Bressoud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Bressoud works in number theory, combinatorics, and analysis and is particularly interested in the history of mathematics and how to use it in teaching mathematics. His many textbooks include <em>Factorization and Primality Testing<\/em>, <em> Second Year Calculus from Celestial Mechanics to Special Relativity<\/em>, <em> A Radical Approach to Real Analysis<\/em> (now in 2nd edition), <em>A Radical Approach to Lebesgue&#8217;s Theory of Integration<\/em>, <em>Proofs and Confirmation: The Story of the Alternating Sign Matrix Conjecture,<\/em> and, with Stan Wagon<em>, A Course in Computational Number Theory<\/em>. He enjoys travel, swimming, and bicycling.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>BA: Swarthmore College, 1971<\/li>\n<li>Master\u2019s: Temple University, 1975<\/li>\n<li>PhD: Temple University, 1977<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":233,"template":"","class_list":["post-314","profile","type-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/mscs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/mscs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/mscs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/mscs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/mscs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1111,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/mscs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/314\/revisions\/1111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/mscs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/mscs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}