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Biography
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Paul Zeitz
Professor: Mathematics
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Paul Zeitz majored in History at Harvard and received a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1992, specializing in Ergodic Theory. Between college and graduate school, he taught high school mathematics in San Francisco and Colorado Springs.
One of his greatest interests is mathematical problem solving. He won the USA Mathematical Olympiad (USAMO) and was a member of the first American team to participate in the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) in 1974. Since 1985, he has composed and edited problems for several national math contests, including the USAMO. He has helped train several American IMO teams, most notably the 1994 "Dream Team" which, for the first---and only---time in in history, achieved a perfect score. This work, and his experiences teaching at USF led him to write The Art and Craft of Problem Solving (Wiley, 1999).
He has also been very active in local events for high school students. He founded the Bay Area Math Meet in 1994 and co-founded the Bay Area Mathematical Olympiad in 1999.
He was recently honored, in March 2002, with the Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics, by the Northern California Section of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA), and in January 2003, he received the MAA's national teaching award, the Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award.
Contact Information:
University of San Francisco
2130 Fulton St. San Francisco, CA 94117
Phone: (415) 422-6590
Fax: (415) 422-5747
Email: zeitz@usfca.edu
Office: Harney Science Center, 222b
Office Hours: MTW 10.00-11.20am
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