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Nathan Altshiller Court

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I was an early, and then a continued, admirer of Nathan Altshiller Court. He wrote one of the first textbooks on college geometry. It was an excellent book and it did much toward popularizing that subject among college mathematics offerings. I corresponded a great deal with Professor Court, especially during my long tenure as editor of one of The American Mathematical Monthly's Problems Sections, for he was an assiduous contributor to that department. But it wasn't until, upon a speaking tour, that I finally met him, at his university, the University of Oklahoma. We had a delightful visit together, and during the visit I begged from him a copy of an attractive portrait of himself that I saw in his office. Smiling, he said he would gladly give me a copy, under the strict condition that I would hang it in my study overlooking my desk, where he could see that I kept busy at work. I agreed to the condition, and his portrait, now framed and behind glass, hangs in exactly such a position, overlooking my desk at Fox Hollow in Maine.

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Publisher: Mathematical Association of America
Print publication year: 2001

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