Faculty

Michael Bradley, ’78

Academic Title

Professor

Contact Information

Research Interests

Data Science
Sports Analytics
History of Mathematics

Research Summary

Professor Bradley wrote a series of books about the life and work of 50 famous mathematicians as well as undergraduate textbooks in discrete mathematics, calculus for business and precalculus.

Education

Ph.D., Mathematics, University Notre Dame
M.A., Mathematics, University Notre Dame
B.A., Mathematics, Merrimack College

Areas of Expertise

History of Mathematics
Math Education

Recent Publications

Books

“Pioneers in Mathematics” (series of five books), Chelsea House Publishing: New York, 2006.
“Elementary Functions for Calculus,” with Frank Eccles, Fourth Edition, 2002.
“An Introduction to Discrete Mathematics”, Third Edition, McGraw-Hill, Dubuque, IA, 2000.
“Calculus for Business” third printing with corrections, McGraw-Hill, Dubuque, IA, 2000.

Refereed Articles in Academic Journals

“Automorphism Groups of Plane Curves”, with Harry D’Souza, Communications in Algebra, vol. 32, no. 8 (October, 2004), pp. 2885-2894.
“Additivity and Homogeneity”, with Michael St. Vincent and David Finn, The College Mathematics Journal, vol. 30, no. 2 (March, 1999), pp. 133-135.
“Building Home Plate: Field of Dreams or Reality?,” Mathematics Magazine, 69 (February, 1996), pp. 44-45.

Honors and Awards

Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award, 2017.
Edward G. Roddy Outstanding Teacher Award, Merrimack College, 2001.

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