Home Page of Thomas Hern
- Hometown: Cincinnati, Ohio.
My families have been there since the 1820s.
- Withrow High School, Cincinnati, OH.
How many high schools have a clock tower and bridge in front?
Withrow Minstrels
- A.B., mathematics,
University of Cincinnati.
- Ph.D., probability theory, The
Ohio State University.
- Mathematics and Statistics Faculty
at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OHIO.
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Ohio Section of the Mathematical Association of America.
Section Governor, the Section's representative on the Board of Governors of the
MAA.
Ohio Masters of Mathematics.
This collection of biographical sketches is part of Ohio's Bicentennial celebration.
- Mathematics and statistics in comics:
The
perils of teaching probability (Bizarro comic).
Latest medical study
by Jim Borgman.
- Mathematics in song:
"I am the Very Model of a Modern Major
General", from Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance
"New Math" by Tom Lehrer.
(Wait for audio to load.)
- Graphic supplement
to CMJ article: Order of Integration and a Minimal Surface, with Cliff and Andy Long.
- Combining hobbies: Travel and photography:
- Southwest trip, June 2006.
- Rails to Churchill, Oct 8-15, 2005.
Amtrak and VIA to Churchill, Manitoba, on Hudson Bay. Polar bear watching. Photos
(Sponsored by
Mad River and NKP Rail Museum)
- Nova Scotia Trip. Sept 24-Oct 3, 2004.
- Isaak Walton Inn (MT) Trip. April 17-24, 2004.
- Fall Western Rail Trip, Sept. 13-28, 2003.
- New England Fall Color trip, Sept 27-Oct 5, 2002
- Delta Queen trip, October, 2001
- Southwest rail trip, September, 2001
- Alaska Trip, May-June 2000
- Mt. Kilamanjaro at Dawn, 1981
- Steam tractors and Five Points Threshers
- Check out the web page for Hilary Hahn, a fantastic
20 year old American violinist.
She happenes to be the granddaughter of Will Hahn, retired from the
math department at Wittenberg University in Springfield Ohio.
- Cousin Jack's boat business.
- Escavation of the
Battle of Fallen Timbers.
"One of the three most critical battles in United States history."
- Two of my great-great uncles were captured at Chickamauga: Enoch and Thomas Hern.
They were is the
89th Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
- The Toledo Picture Gallery
Thomas Hern
