Ken Stroud

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Kenneth Arthur Stroud (

Richmond, Surrey, 28 September 1908 โ€“ Hertfordshire township, February 3, 2000)[1] was a mathematician and Principal Lecturer in Mathematics at Lanchester Polytechnic in Coventry, England.[2][3]
He is most widely known as the author of several mathematics textbooks, especially the very popular Engineering Mathematics.

Education

Stroud held a

Work

Stroud was an innovator in programmed learning and the identification of precise learning outcomes,[5][6] and Nigel Steele calls his textbook Engineering Mathematics, based on the programmed learning approach, "one of the most successful mathematics textbooks ever published."[7]

He died in February 2000, aged 91.[7]

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ European Mathematical Society, Newsletter No. 36, June, 2000, page 42.
  2. ^ Author information from book publisher's web site.
  3. ^ "A Tribute to Ken Stroud", Mathematics Today, Bulletin of the Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications, April, 2000.
  4. ^ Laplace Transforms, Programmes and Problems, S. Thornes, 1973, title page.
  5. ^ Stroud, K.A., "A System Approach to the Training of Mathematics to First Year Undergraduate Engineering Students at the Lanchester Polytechnic, Coventry", Journal of the Institute of Mathematics. May 1971, 152-155.
  6. ^ Stroud, K.A., "The Development, Organisation and Administration of Programmed Learning at Undergraduate Level", The Conference on Programmed Learning and Education Technology at Glasgow University, 5โ€“8 April 1968, Association for Programmed Learning and Educational Technology, 1969, 295-298.
  7. ^ a b Steele, Nigel (2000-03-17), "Method is more than the sum of its parts: Nigel Steele recalls a guru who calculated a route to learning success", Times Higher Education