Deborah J. Bennett

Deborah Jo Bennett (born 1950)[1] is an American mathematician, mathematics education scholar, and book author. She is a professor of mathematics at New Jersey City University.[2]

Education and career

Bennett is originally from Tuscaloosa, Alabama; her father was a military officer and her mother worked as a computer systems analyst.[1] She majored in mathematics at the University of Alabama, graduating in 1972, and worked as a researcher at the Institute for Defense Analysis and as an operations researcher for the US Government Accountability Office before returning to graduate school for a master's degree in operations research at George Washington University in 1980.[3]

After a year in Ghana teaching mathematics through the Peace Corps, she became a mathematics instructor at Pace University from 1981 to 1987, and at Farmingdale State College from 1984 to 1993. While doing this, she also completed a Ph.D. in mathematics education at New York University in 1993.[3] Her dissertation, The Development of the Mathematical Concept of Randomness: Educational Implications, was supervised by Kenneth P. Goldberg.[4]

She joined New Jersey City University as an assistant professor of mathematics in 1993, adding a concurrent appointment in education in 1999. She has since become a full professor, and served two terms as president of the University Senate.[3]

Books

Bennett is the coauthor of the textbook Algebra for All (with Phillip Aikey and Julio Guillen, McGraw-Hill, 1997).[3] She is also the author of two popular mathematics books, Randomness (Harvard University Press, 1998),[5] and Logic Made Easy: How to Know When Language Deceives You (W. W. Norton, 2004).[6] Her book Logic Made Easy was listed as an Outstanding Academic Title in 2004 by Choice Reviews.[1]

References

1. "Bennett, Deborah J. 1950-", Encyclopedia.com, retrieved 2021-03-06
2. "Deborah Bennett, Professor, Mathematics", Faculty & Staff Directory, New Jersey City University, retrieved 2021-03-06
3. Curriculum vitae (PDF), April 2019, retrieved 2021-03-06
4. Deborah J. Bennett at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
5. Reviews of Randomness:
   • "Nonfiction book review", Kirkus Reviews, 15 April 1998
   • Journal of Economic Literature, 36 (3): 1545–1550, September 1998, JSTOR 2564829
   • Draper, T. W. (1999), "Review", Journal of Consciousness Studies, 6 (1): 118
   • Durm, Mark (September–October 2000), "Review", Skeptical Inquirer, 24 (5)
   • Gasiorowicz, Stephen (January 1999), Physics Today, 52 (1): 68, Bibcode:1999PhT....52a..68G, doi:10.1063/1.882575, S2CID 248647521
   • Giesbrecht, F. (July–August 1998), Choice Reviews: 1887
   • Hunter, Patti Wilger (June 1999), Isis, 90 (2): 345–346, doi:10.1086/384337, JSTOR 237064
   • Kantor, Paul (July 1999), The Library Quarterly, 69 (3): 392–394, doi:10.1086/603108, JSTOR 4309353
   • Kazarovitsky, E., zbMATH, Zbl 0937.00004
   • Monaghan, Patricia (15 April 1998), "Review", Booklist: 1404
   • Nelson, Lloyd S. (July 1999), Journal of Quality Technology, 31 (3): 359–360, ProQuest 214482419
   • Rial, J. A. (September–October 1998), "Chance encounter", American Scientist, 86 (5): 482, JSTOR 27857105
   • Shane, Harold D. (1 May 1998), Library Journal: 134
6. Reviews of Logic Made Easy:
   • "Nonfiction book review", Publishers Weekly
   • Chylinski, Manya (15 April 2004), Library Journal: 90
   • Devlin, Keith (November–December 2004), "Becoming a better reasoner", American Scientist, 92 (6): 575–576, JSTOR 27858495
   • Doran, K. (December 2004), Choice Reviews: 674
   • Epstein, Richard L. (December 2004), The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, 10 (4): 577–578, doi:10.1017/S1079898600003668, JSTOR 3216745, S2CID 122756163
   • Wolf, Robert S. (May 2005), "Review", MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America