Ken Ross

• Education: B.S. (1956) Utah, M.S. (1958), Ph.D. (1960) Washington
• I am an Emeritus Professor in the Mathematics Department at the University of Oregon.
• I am retired from teaching at the University of Oregon. My last class at the U of O, in the spring of 2000, was a Freshman Seminar Statistics and Mathematics of Baseball. You may find the bibliography, which I updated after the course, useful. Jim Albert has taught an introductory statistics class entirely from a baseball perspective. The book Teaching Statistics Using Baseball (published by the Mathematical Association of America) contains a number of essays on various topics in probability and statistics with associated exercises. For more information, see Albert's website.
• Over the years, several graduate students have found some notes of mine, Informal Introduction to Set Theory, useful. For an improved version of the appendix on Tychonoff's Theorem, click here: Set Theory Appendix.
• I am active in the Mathematical Association of America and in the Pacific Northwest Section of the MAA. I am a member of the following MAA committees: Advisory Board for the (Halmos) Conference Center, Chauvenet Prize Committee, Committee on the Silver and Gold Banquet, ad hoc Planning Committee for the MAA Centennial (2015), and the Spectrum Editorial Board. I am also an Associate Editor for Mathematics Magazine.
• Research interests: harmonic analysis and probability.
• Ruth and I have several kids, namely Emily, Jeanie, John, Laurel and Lisa. Matthew (born February 9, 1996) and Mark (born February 12, 1999) are our grandchildren.
• A list of my Books may be accessed here.
• I have an electronic article about Edwin Hewitt .

(last change made 23 January 2007)