Michael A. B. Deakin
Michael Andrew Bernard Deakin
Education and career
Deakin was born 12 August 1939.[6] He grew up in Tasmania, and moved to Melbourne late in his high school education, taking a second matriculation year studying Latin at St Patrick's College, East Melbourne before entering the University of Melbourne in 1957. He completed a bachelor's degree with second-class honours in mathematics at Melbourne in 1961. He went on to earn a master's degree there in 1963, with a thesis on integral equations supervised by Russell Love.[9]
Deakin moved to the University of Chicago in 1963 for graduate study, and completed his Ph.D. in 1966, under the supervision of mathematical biophysicist Herbert Landahl.[10] He became a lecturer at Monash University in Melbourne in 1967, but then in 1970 moved to Papua New Guinea to become reader-in-charge in the mathematics department of the Institute of Higher Technical Education. He returned to Monash as a senior reader in 1973. He earned a master's degree in education in 1975 from the University of Exeter, and remained at Monash for the rest of his career.[8]
He died on 5 August 2014,[6][7] survived by his widow, Rayda, and the children of his first marriage.[11]
Function
In 1976 a group of mathematicians at Monash University led by department chair Gordon Preston recognized the need for a journal focused on "mathematics as mathematicians themselves would recognise it, but addressed to secondary students". A secondary but explicit goal was to encourage young women in mathematics, as at that time their under-representation was already recognized. Later, over beers with friends from other disciplines, Deakin found the name for the new journal, Function.[12] The journal was published from 1977 to 2004, and Deakin became a founding member of its editorial board, its most frequent contributor, and, for much of its existence, its editor-in-chief.[7]
Hypatia
Deakin published the first of his several articles on Hypatia in 1992 in Function.[7]
In 2007, he published the book Hypatia of Alexandria: Mathematician and Martyr (Prometheus Books).
See also
References
- ^ Australian National Bibliography 1992, National Library of Australia, 1992, p. 462
- ^ Report of Research and Investigation 1961, University of Melbourne, 1961, p. 49
- ^ The Name of the Number, Michael A. B. Deakin, David Leigh-Lancaster, ACER Press, 2007, p. iv
- ^ Parabola vol. 50, issue 2, 2014, p. 1
- ^ "Michael Deakin Obituary (2014) - Melbourne, Victoria - the Age". Legacy.com.
- ^ a b c Michael Deakin (1939–2014), American Mathematical Society, 18 September 2014
- ^ a b c d Polster, Burkard; Ross, Marty (1 September 2014), "The wonderful Function of Michael Deakin: A legacy of learning, ideas, passion – and mathematics", The Sydney Morning Herald
- ^ a b 2003 BH Neumann Awards, Australian Mathematics Trust, archived from the original on 2018-03-19, retrieved 2017-12-24
- ^ "Michael Deakin, BSc (Hons) 1961; MSc 1963", Mathematics and Statistics 1960s Reunion, University of Melbourne, 8 August 2017, retrieved 2017-12-24
- . Retrieved 2024-04-08.
- ^ "Michael Deakin Death Notice - Melbourne, Victoria | the Age".
- ^ Deakin, Michael A. B., Function and functions (PDF)
- ^ MR 2332259
- ^ JSTOR 10.1086/593232
- ^ Additional reviews of Hypatia of Alexandria: Mathematician and Martyr:
- Boman, Eugene (December 2007), "Hypatia of Alexandria: Mathematician and Martyr", Convergence, Mathematical Association of America
- Sumpter, Denise (January 2008), Nuncius, 23 (2): 385–386, doi:10.1163/221058708x00674)
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- Berghout, Bob (2008), "Book reviews" (PDF), Gazette of the Australian Mathematical Society, 35 (2): 126–128
- Rauff, James V. (2009), Mathematics and Computer Education, 43 (1): 89–90
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- ^ S2CID 121898354
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