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Family Tree

Background tree based on “Forgiveness” by OfC, released under the CC-BY License.

Education

Public Schools of Clewiston and Key West, FL
B.S.: Florida State University - 1959
M.S.: Florida State University - 1960
Ph.D.: Florida State University - 1963 (Morton Curtis, thesis director)

Honorary Societies

Phi Beta Kappa
Phi Kappa Phi
Sigma Xi
N.C.S.U. Academy of Outstanding Teachers

Professional Employment

1963-1965: Duke University - Research Associate
1965-1967: N. C. State University - Assistant Professor
1967-1974: Associate Professor
1974-2002: Professor
2002-Present: Professor Emeritus

Ph.D. Students

1971: William W. Taylor
1974: Gary M. Brady
1976: Fu-Chien Tzung
1986: Josephine P. Guglielmi

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Publications

  Books

• Hausdorff Compactifications, Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, 1976.
• Neogene Fossils of North Carolina - A Field Guide, N.C. Fossil Club, Raleigh NC, 1994 (with J. Timmerman).
• Cretaceous and Paleogene Fossils of North Carolina - A Field Guide, N.C. Fossil Club, Raleigh NC, 1995 (with J. Timmerman).
• Fossils of North Carolina, editor,  5 volumes, approx. 1400 pages, N.C. Fossil Club, Raleigh NC, 2014 - 2017 (with N.C. Fossil Club members).

• Cellular subcomplexes of piecewise-linear manifolds, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 16 (1965), pp. 599-600.
• Applications of a function topology on rings with unit, Illinois J. of Math. 11 (1967), pp. 580-585 (with K. Koh).
• A generalized contraction principle, Fund. Math. LXV (1969), pp. 93-95.
• An alternative construction of βX and νX, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 32 (1972), pp. 315-318.
• New compactifications from old, Amer. Math. Monthly 79 (1972), pp. 501-503.
• The compactifications to which an element of C*(X) extends, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 38 (1973), pp. 637-639 (with R. Gellar).
• Continua as remainders, revisited, Gen. Topology and its Appl. 8 (1978), pp. 63-66.
• Remainders in Hausdorff compactifications, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 70 (1978), pp. 196-202 (with F. C. Tzung).
• Singular sets and remainders, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 268 (1981), pp. 161-171 (with G. Cain and G. Faulkner).
• Generalizing the Alexandroff-Urysohn double circumference construction, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 83 (1981), pp. 606-608 (with G. Faulkner, J. Guglielmi, and M. Memory).
• Singular compactifications: the order structure, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 100 (1987), pp. 377-382 (with G. Faulkner).
• On classes of compactifications which are always singular, Topol. and its Appl. 71 (1996), pp.101-107 (with A.V. Arhangel'skii, G.D. Faulkner, M.C. Vipera).
• Hausdorff compactifications: a retrospective, Handbook of the History of General Topology, Volume II, pp.631-667, C. E. Aull and R. Lowen, eds., (1998) (with G. Faulkner).

• The painter's algorithm, PC Tech Journal 3 (Nov. 1985), pp. 181-187 (with G. Faulkner).
• Sixteen color graphics, PC Tech Journal 4 (Aug. 1986), pp. 159-171 (with J. Davis and G. Faulkner).
• A virtual graphics screen, PC Tech Journal 4 (Sept. 1986), pp. 134-145 (with G. Faulkner).
• A tracking algorithm for implicitly defined curves, IEEE Comp. Graphics & Appl. 8 (1988), pp. 83-89.
• A recursive technique for rendering parametric curves, Computers and Graphics, 14 (1990) pp. 477-479.

• An overview of coleoid Cephalopods from Paleogene and Neogene aged rocks of Southern North America, Ferrantia 59 (2010), 201-214 (with Patricia Weaver and Charles Ciampaglia).
• Rarely seen coleoid phragmacone steinkerns from the Eocene Castle Hayne Limestone of southeastern North Carolina, Palaeontographica, Abteilung A, 279 (2007), 159-165 (with Patricia Weaver and Charles Ciampaglia).
• Quantifying a possible Miocene phyletic change in Hemipristis (Chondrichthyes) teeth, Palaeontologia Electronica (2006#1) (with Karen Chiswell and Gary Faulkner).
• Additional echinoderms from the PCS (Lee Creek) Phosphate Mine, near Aurora, Beaufort County, North Carolina, Southeastern Geology, 44 #2 (2006), 73-83 (with Patricia Weaver and Richard Webb).
• A new elusive otodontid shark (Lamniformes: Otodontidae) from the lower Miocene, and comments on the taxonomy of otodontid genera, including the ‘megatoothed’ clade, Historical Biology (2016) (with Kenshu Shimada, Otto Lok Tao Lam, Takeshi Tanaka, and David J. Ward).

• The calculations of stability constants using a high speed digital computer, J. Inorganic Chem. 21 (1961), pp. 21-24 (with J. A. Chopoorian, G. R. Choppin, and H. C. Griffith).
• An experimental fixed increment war game, Operations Research Symposium, U. S. Army Electronics Command, Ft. Monmouth, NJ, March 29-30, 1966 (with F. J. Murray, W. E. Sewell, and L. E. Winslow).
• Some further cryptographic applications of permutation polynomials, Cryptologia XI (1987), pp. 211-218 (with J. Levine).
• The Hill cryptographic system with unknown cipher alphabet but known plaintext, Cryptologia, XIII (1989) pp. 1-28 (with J. Levine).
• The two-message problem in the Hill cryptographic system with unknown cipher alphabet, Cryptologia XVII (1993) pp. 1-30 (with J. Levine).
• Eudoxus Meets Cayley, American Mathematical Monthly, 110 (2003), pp. 912-927 (with C. Meyer and N. Rose).

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