Richard Delaware

Mathematics Talks

Locations Where Talks Given:
Avila College
Benedictine College
Central Missouri State University
Emporia State University
Johnson County Community College
Park University
Penn Valley Community College
Rockhurst University
University of Iowa
University of Louisville
University of Missouri - Columbia
University of Missouri - Kansas City
Weber State University
William Jewell College

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Expository Mathematics Talks (Complete List)
  1. e and p are Irrational.
    Jan. 20, 1988, UMKC Expository Talks Series.
  2. Two World Class Series: S 1/n and S 1/n2.
    Feb. 17, 1988, UMKC Expository Talks Series.
    Apr. 3, 1990, Kappa Mu Epsilon (Mathematics Honor Society) Banquet Speaker, Wm. Jewell College.
  3. Polya's Orchard Problem.
    Apr. 6, 1988, UMKC Expository Talks Series.
  4. e is Transcendental.
    Sept. 7, 1988, UMKC Expository Talks Series.
  5. Measuring Voting Power in a Presidential Election.
    Sept. 21, 1988, UMKC Expository Talks Series.
  6. Ques: Can an Arbitrary Angle be Trisected? Ans: Yes, No, Almost, and Who Cares?
    Jan. 25, 1989, UMKC Expository Talks Series.
  7. The Leslie Matrix Model of Population Projection: A UMAP Module.
    Sept. 7, 1989, UMKC Expository Talks Series.
  8. The Jordan Curve Theorem: A Proof of the Piecewise Smooth Case.
    Oct. 19, 1989, UMKC Expository Talks Series.
  9. En Route to Chaos: Sarkovskii's Theorem.
    Jan. 24, 1990, UMKC Expository Talks Series.
    Apr. 28, 1993, Avila College, Mathematics Dept., National Mathematics Awareness Week.
    Feb. 16, 1994, Univ. of Missouri - Columbia, Mathematics Dept., Arts & Sciences Week.
  10. 1-1+1-1+1-...And All That: Coming to Terms with Divergent Series.
    Sept. 27, 1990, UMKC History of Mathematics Course Guest Speaker.
  11. The Cayley-Hamilton Theorem: History and Proofs.
    Nov. 30, 1990, UMKC Expository Talks Series.
  12. Fermat's 'Last Theorem' c.1637-1993 (pre-Wiles): The Most Famous Marginal Note in Mathematical History.
    Mar. 22, 1991, UMKC Expository Talks Series.
    Feb. 26, 1993, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, Mathematics Dept.
  13. There is NO Finite Projective Plane of Order 10: A Computer-Aided 'Proof'.
    Dec. 6, 1991, UMKC Expository Talks Series.
  14. Pascal's Triangle Before Pascal: An Historical Picturebook.
    Feb. 21, 1992, UMKC Expository Talks Series.
    Sept. 27, 1994, Park University, Mathematics Dept.
  15. Will All N become One? The Collatz Problem c.1930 - 1992.
    Apr. 24, 1992, UMKC Expository Talks Series.
    Apr. 26, 1995, Avila College, Mathematics Dept., National Mathematics Awareness Week.
  16. I Tell You 5 Times: Primes On Their Heads In A Sum Won't Converge!
    Dec. 4, 1992, UMKC Expository Talks Series.
  17. Mathematical Cranks and Their Obsessions.
    Mar. 6, 1993, Kansas City Skeptical Society.
  18. There are Infinitely Many Carmichael Numbers: An 82 Year Old Problem Solved.
    Apr. 23, 1993, UMKC Dept. of Mathematics & Statistics Expository Talks Series.
  19. As the Worm Turns c.1966 - 1993: What is the Area of the Smallest Convex Blanket That Will Cover Every Worm of Length 1?
    Sept. 10, 1993, UMKC Expository Talks Series.
    Apr. 26, 1994, Avila College, Mathematics Dept., National Mathematics Awareness Week.
  20. Borsuk's Question 1933 - 1993: Can You Partition Each Set in RN of Diameter 1 Into N + 1 Sets of Diameter Less?
    Feb. 4, 1994, UMKC Expository Talks Series.
  21. The Dinitz Conjecture 1978 - 1994: Partial Latin Squares Always Exist!
    Nov. 18, 1994, UMKC Expository Talks Series.
  22. Kepler's Sphere-Packing Conjecture 1611-1995: What's The Best Way to Stack Oranges?
    Apr. 14, 1995, UMKC Expository Talks Series.
  23. What's the Densest Way to Pack Equal Circles in a Square? c.1964-1995.
    Dec. 1, 1995, UMKC Expository Talks Series.
    Apr. 25, 1996, Avila College, Mathematics Dept., National Mathematics Awareness Week.
  24. Can a Light in a Reflecting Room Always be Seen from Every Spot? Any Spot?
    Feb. 9, 1996, UMKC Expository Talks Series.
    Mar. 27, 1996, Benedictine College, Discovery Day mathematics speaker, Kappa Mu Epsilon.
  25. Blind Statistics and the Challenger Accident.
    May 19, 1996, Dedication Event of the Center for Inquiry - Midwest, Defending Science.
  26. Morley's Trisector Theorem c.1899: History and Proofs.
    Nov. 21, 1996, Central Missouri State University, Kappa Mu Epsilon.
  27. Cascades, Fountains, and Showers: The Mathematical Patterns of Juggling.
    Dec. 6, 1996, UMKC Expository Talks Series.
  28. Inner Reflections Upon Ellipses.
    Mar. 21, 1997, UMKC Expository Talks Series.
  29. A Lesson in Dissection: Dehn Settles Hilbert's Third Problem.
    Sept. 12, 1997, UMKC Expository Talks Series.
  30. Ö2: History and Proofs of Irrationality.
    Jan. 30, 1998, UMKC Expository Talks Series.
  31. Fermat's Little Theorem is a One-Way Street Infinitely Often: The Prime Evasion of 561.
    Apr. 4, 1998, Kappa Mu Epsilon Convention Keynote Speaker at Wm. Jewell College.
  32. Hippocrates of Chios Squares a Lune, ... But Can't Square a Circle!
    Apr. 29, 1998, KCATM (Kansas City Area Teachers of Mathematics) Awards Banquet Speaker.
  33. It's All Corners!…The Failure of Intuition: Functions Continuous Everywhere But Differentiable Nowhere.
    Sept. 11, 1998, UMKC Expository Talks Series.
    Nov. 17, 1998, Invited Speaker, Colloquium Series, Johnson County Community College.
  34. The Year 1000: What Mathematics Was Being Done at the Last Turn of the Millennium?
    April 9, 1999, Invited Address, Spring Meeting, MAA Missouri Section, Rockhurst University.
  35. From the 'Method' of Archimedes: The Area of a Parabolic Segment, By Levers and By Series.
    April 16, 1999, UMKC Expository Talks Series.
  36. Kissing Numbers: How Many Congruent Regular Polygons Can Kiss Another of Their Kind?
    Nov. 30, 1999, Kappa Mu Epsilon, Benedictine College.
    Dec. 3, 1999, UMKC Expository Talks Series.
  37. Some Islamic Mathematics of the Year 1000
    March 27, 2000, Invited speaker, Emporia State University.
  38. The Area of an Enigmatic Ellipse: Holditch's Theorem.
    Sept. 8, 2000, UMKC Expository Talks Series.
    Feb. 13, 2001, Invited Speaker, Colloquium Series, Johnson County Community College.
  39. Arrow's Impossibility Theorem: Is the Only Fair Voting System a Dictatorship?
    April 20, 2001, UMKC Expository Talks Series.
  40. The Tangential Triangle and Rectangle Problem: Erdos, Grunwald, and Polya.
    Sept. 7, 2001, UMKC Expository Talks Series.
  41. Helge von Koch's 1904 paper on his famous "snowflake" curve: On a Continuous Curve without Tangents Constructible from Elementary Geometry.
    Feb. 22, 2002, UMKC Expository Talks Series.
  42. The Longest Curve with Increasing Chords (Whose Endpoints are a Unit Apart) Has Length 2p/3.
    Sept. 27, 2002, UMKC Expository Talks Series.
  43. From Bishop Berkeley's 1734 Complaint to Colin MacLaurin's 1742 Response: The Calculus Finds Its Footing.
    Nov. 8, 2002, UMKC Expository Talks Series.
  44. Quintessence of Dust: Georg Cantor Teases Apart the Real Number Line.
    Mar. 7, 2003, UMKC Expository Talks Series.
  45. The Birth of Geometrical Probability in 1733: The Needle Problem of Georges Louis le Clerc, Comte de Buffon.
    Sept. 12, 2003, UMKC Expository Talks Series.
    April 4, 2004, Midwest Junto for the History of Science, 47th Annual Meeting, Kansas City, MO.
  46. Some Proofs from Abraham de Moivre's The Doctrine of Chances: A Method of Calculating the Probabilities of Events in Play [1738, 2nd ed.].
    Mar. 19, 2004, UMKC Expository Talks Series.
  47. Are There 12 or 13 Kissing Spheres? The 1694 Isaac Newton - David Gregory Disagreement.
    Sept. 3, 2004, UMKC Expository Talks Series.
  48. The 1673 ‘Transmutation Theorem’ of Leibniz: How he found area with Calculus, and proved
    p/4 = 1 - 1/3 + 1/5 - 1/7 + ... .
    Feb. 25, 2005, UMKC Expository Talks Series.

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Conference Talks (not Math EXPO Talks)
  1. Math/Physics Institute: A University/Public High School Cooperative Effort.
    Oct. 24, 1985, NCTM (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics) Regional Meeting, co-presenter.
  2. The Mathematics and Physics Institute: An Exemplary University-School Districts Partnership.
    Mar. 17, 1986, NASULGC (National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges) Urban School Collaborative Conference, co-presenter.
    Nov. 7, 1986, STOM (Science Teachers of Missouri) Fall Conference.
  3. Teaching Calculus I and II: The Mathematics and Physics Institute.
    Apr. 3, 1987, MAA (Mathematical Association of America) Missouri Section Meeting.
    Oct. 31, 1987, AMATYC (American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges) National Conference.
  4. A View from the Border Between High School and College.
    Jan. 23, 1988, KCATM (Kansas City Area Teachers of Mathematics) Winter Meeting.
  5. Mathematical Induction.
    Feb. 6, 1989, Conference of Independent School Educators.
  6. Discerning the Landscape of Mathematics: The Crooked Curriculum of History.
    Oct. 24, 1989, KCATM/KATM (Kansas City Area Teachers of Mathematics/Kansas Association of Teachers of Mathematics) Fall Conference.
  7. Two World Class Series: S 1/n and S 1/n2.
    Apr. 3, 1990, Kappa Mu Epsilon (Mathematics Honor Society) Banquet Speaker, Wm. Jewell College.
  8. Blind Statistics and the Challenger Accident.
    May 19, 1996, Dedication Event of the Center for Inquiry - Midwest, Defending Science.
  9. Derive Visualizations: What You Might Not Know You Can Do!
    Oct. 10, 1996, Central Regional NCTM Conference (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics).
  10. Mathematics for the 21st Century: How Must Mathematics Curricula Change To Accommodate Affordable Hand-Held Symbolic Manipulatives, World-Wide Web Access, Computer Multi-Media Capabilities, etc.?
    Nov. 7, 1996, 9th Annual ICTCM (International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics), Discussion Group Co-Moderator.
  11. Fermat's Little Theorem is a One-Way Street Infinitely Often: The Prime Evasion of 561.
    Apr. 4, 1998, Kappa Mu Epsilon Convention Keynote Speaker at Wm. Jewell College.
  12. Hippocrates of Chios Squares a Lune, ... But Can't Square a Circle!
    Apr. 29, 1998, KCATM (Kansas City Area Teachers of Mathematics) Awards Banquet Speaker.
  13. The Year 1000: What Mathematics Was Being Done at the Last Turn of the Millennium?
    April 9, 1999, Invited Address, Spring Meeting, MAA Missouri Section, Rockhurst University.
  14. Writing Assignments in Modern Geometries MATH 444.
    Dec. 10, 1999, UMKC Writing Across the Curriculum Conference Workshop, 'Issues in Assessing Writing: Teaching with Writing Across the University.'
  15. Sets Whose Hausdorff Measure Equals Method I Outer Measure.
    Mar. 30, 2001, 14th Mini-Conference in Real Analysis, Univ. of Louisville, Louisville, KY.
  16. Every s-set is a Countable Union of Sets Whose Hausdorff Measure Equals Method I Outer Measure.
    May 23, 2001, Summer Symposium in Real Analysis XXV, Weber State Univ., Ogden, UT.
  17. Resources for Teaching with the History of Mathematics.
    Jan. 11, 2003, KCATM (Kansas City Area Teachers of Mathematics) Winter Conference.
  18. The Birth of Geometrical Probability in 1733: The Needle Problem of Georges Louis le Clerc, Comte de Buffon.
    April 4, 2004, Midwest Junto for the History of Science, 47th Annual Meeting, Kansas City, MO.
  19. VSI in Math and History: Behaviors for Success.
    June 4, 2004, 3rd International Conference on Supplemental Instruction, Boston, MA, co-presenter.

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Colloquium Talks Given Elsewhere
  1. Fermat's 'Last Theorem' c.1637-1993 (pre-Wiles): The Most Famous Marginal Note in Mathematical History.
    Feb. 26, 1993, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, Mathematics Dept.
  2. Mathematical Cranks and Their Obsessions.
    Mar. 6, 1993, Kansas City Skeptical Society.
  3. En Route to Chaos: Sarkovskii's Theorem.
    Apr. 28, 1993, Avila College, Mathematics Dept., National Mathematics Awareness Week.
    Feb. 16, 1994, Univ. of Missouri - Columbia, Mathematics Dept., Arts & Sciences Week.
  4. As the Worm Turns c.1966 - 1993: What is the Area of the Smallest Convex Blanket That Will Cover Every Worm of Length 1?
    Apr. 26, 1994, Avila College, Mathematics Dept., National Mathematics Awareness Week.
  5. Pascal's Triangle Before Pascal: An Historical Picturebook.
    Sept. 27, 1994, Park University, Mathematics Dept.
  6. Will All N become One? The Collatz Problem c.1930 - 1992.
    Apr. 26, 1995, Avila College, Mathematics Dept., National Mathematics Awareness Week.
  7. Can a Light in a Reflecting Room Always be Seen from Every Spot? Any Spot?
    Mar. 27, 1996, Benedictine College, Discovery Day mathematics speaker, Kappa Mu Epsilon.
  8. What's the Densest Way to Pack Equal Circles in a Square? c.1964-1995.
    Apr. 25, 1996, Avila College, Mathematics Dept., National Mathematics Awareness Week.
  9. Morley's Trisector Theorem c.1899: History and Proofs.
    Nov. 21, 1996, Central Missouri State University, Kappa Mu Epsilon.
  10. It's All Corners!…The Failure of Intuition: Functions Continuous Everywhere But Differentiable Nowhere.
    Nov. 17, 1998, Invited Speaker, Colloquium Series, Johnson County Community College.
  11. Kissing Numbers: How Many Congruent Regular Polygons Can Kiss Another of Their Kind?
    Nov. 30, 1999, Kappa Mu Epsilon, Benedictine College.
  12. Some Islamic Mathematics of the Year 1000
    March 27, 2000, Invited speaker, Emporia State University.
  13. The Area of an Enigmatic Ellipse: Holditch's Theorem.
    Feb. 13, 2001, Invited Speaker, Colloquium Series, Johnson County Community College.

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Other Graduate/Research Mathematics Talks
  1. Automorphisms of Matrix Algebras.
    Jan. 14, 1994, UMKC Graduate Mathematics Talks Series.
  2. Sets Whose Hausdorff Measure Equals Method I Outer Measure.
    July 12, 2000, UMKC Doctoral Dissertation Defence.
  3. The Graph of a Convex Function in the Plane is the Countable Union of '1-straight' Sets: Sets Whose Hausdorff Measure Equals Method I Outer Measure.
    Oct. 27, 2000, UMKC Graduate Mathematics Talks Series.
  4. An Introduction to s-straight Sets.
    Mar. 9, 2001, UMKC Graduate Mathematics Talks Series.

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Other Mathematics Talks
  1. Distinguished Teaching Panel (immediately after winning Superior Teaching Award).
    Aug. 21, 1984, UMKC School of Graduate Studies GTA Orientation.
  2. High School Mathematics: Keeping Your Options Open.
    May 20, 1987, Englewood Christian High School.
  3. A Mathematics Potpourri.
    May 10, 1988, Palmer Junior High School.
  4. Speakers' Bureau Panel.
    Feb. 6, 1989, Conference of Independent School Educators.
  5. Mathfest Talk.
    Apr. 25, 1990, UMKC Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics.
  6. Innumeracy and the Use of Mathematics in Reasoning about Pseudoscience.
    Oct. 9, 1990, "The Voice of Reason" local radio talk show, KKFI.
  7. Seeing How to Turn a Sphere Inside-Out (without tearing it).
    Jan. 20, 1995, UMKC Expository Talks Series, a presentation of two video tapes.
  8. Mathematics Dinner Talk.
    Aug. 2, 1997, Center for Inquiry - Midwest.
  9. 'The Institute for Pi', a Video Spoof.
    Oct. 25, 1997, Center for Inquiry - Midwest Conference, within a session entitled 'Mathematics, Medicine and the Culture Wars'.
  10. Student Expository Papers in History of Mathematics.
    Oct. 21, 1998, UMKC Writing Across the Curriculum Committee Lunch Meeting.
  11. Writing Assignments in Calculus I.
    April 28, 2000, UMKC High School/College Program Conference.
  12. Writing in History of Mathematics MATH 464 WI.
    April 13, 2001, UMKC Writing Across the Curriculum Writing Intensive Faculty Forum.
  13. One Small Peer Review Assignment in History of Mathematics MATH 464 WI.
    October 26, 2001, UMKC Writing Across the Curriculum Writing Intensive Faculty Forum.

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