George F. Simmons

George Finlay Simmons (March 3, 1925[1] – August 6, 2019)[2][3] was an American mathematician who worked in topology and classical analysis.He received his BS degree from California Institute of Technology in 1946.He received his MS degree from University of Chicago in 1948.After finishing his PhD from Yale University in 1957, he joined Colorado College as a lecturer.[5] In the algebra preface of his book Precalculus Mathematics in a Nutshell, Professor George F. Simmons wrote that the New Math produced students who had "heard of the commutative law, but did not know the multiplication table.
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