Richard D.

Bronson
Born August 5, 1941
New York, United States
Occupation Educator, mathematician, author
Nationality American
Education Stevens Institute of Technology
Genre Thriller, non-fiction, poetry
Website
http://www.antispinthebook.com
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not to be confused with Richard Branson.
Richard Bronson (born August 5, 1941) is the American
Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Fairleigh Dickinson
University
[1]
where he served as Chair of the Department of
Mathematics and Computer Science, Acting Dean of the
College of Science and Engineering, Interim Provost of the
Metropolitan Campus, Director of Government Affairs, and
Senior Executive Assistant to the President.
[2]
He served as
an officer (2008-2011) of the International Association of
University Presidents,
[3]
where he was actively involved in
the creation of the United Nations Academic Impact
initiative
[4]
and the World Innovative Summit in Education,
held annually in Qatar. He is also the author of the political
thriller Antispin.
1 Personal life
2 Writing
3 Awards
4 Research
5 Publications and presentations
5.1 Fiction
5.2 Non-fiction: books
5.3 Non-fiction: articles
6 References
7 External links
Richard D. Bronson was born in New York City on August 5, 1941. He attended Stevens Institute of
Technology, where he earned his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in applied mathematics. He is married and has two
children.
Dr. Bronson has written eleven books in mathematics, some in their third edition with many translated into
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multiple languages. He has published childrens poetry in magazines, including Highlights for Children. He was
on the editorial staff of Simulation Magazine
[5]
and SIAM News
[5]
and the childrens magazine Kids Club.
Antispin is his first novel.
In 1994, Richard Bronson was awarded the Distinguished College or University Teaching award by the New
J ersey Section of Mathematical Association of America.
[6]
He also received the Fairleigh Dickinson University
Distinguished Faculty Award for Research & Scholarship,
[7]
and the University College Outstanding Teacher
Award.
Dr. Bronsons research interests are in mathematical modeling and computer simulation with a focus on macro-
sociological theory. He has written extensively on the topic in articles for professional journals and a general-
interest trade magazine.
Fiction
Antispin (e-book, published 2010; ISBN 978-1-4537-7589-9)
Non-fiction: books
Matrix Methods: An Introduction 3rd edition with Gabriel Costa (in production), Academic Press, New
York. Second edition,1991 (still in print). First edition 19701991.
Linear Algebra: An Introduction 2nd edition with Gabriel Costa, Academic Press, New York, 2007. First
edition, 19952007.
Differential Equations 3rd edition with Gabriel Costa, Schaum's Outline Series, McGrawHill Book
Company, New York, 2006. Second edition, 19932006; first edition under the title Modern Introductory
Differential Equations, 19741993.
Differential Equations, Schaums Easy Outlines, McGrawHill Book Company, New York, 2003.
Operations Research 2nd edition, with G. Naadimuthu, Schaum's Outline Series, McGrawHill Book
Company, New York, 1997. First edition, 19821997.
Matrix Operations, Schaum's Outline Series, McGrawHill Book Company, New York, 1989 (still in
print).
Finite Mathematics with Calculus, with Gary Bronson, Brooks/Cole Publishing Co., CA, 20002003 (out
of print).
Finite Mathematics, with Gary Bronson, West Publishing Co., St. Paul, MN, 19962003 (out of print).
2500 Solved Problems in Differential Equations, Schaum Division, McGrawHill Book Company, New
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York, 19891997 (out of print).
Simulating Violators, monograph with Chanoch J acobsen, Topics in Operations Research Series, Military
Applications Section of Informs, Hanover, MD, 1985 (out of print).
Mathematics for Management, with Gary Bronson, IEP Publishers, a subsidiary of Harper & Row, New
York, 197787 (out of print).
Non-fiction: articles
"Computer Simulated Empirical Tests of Social Theory: Lessons from 15 Years' Experience", with
Chanoch J acobsen, in Simulating Social Phenomena, edited by Conte, Hegselmann and Terna, pp. 97
102, Springer (Berlin), 1997, from the International Conference on Computer Simulation and the Social
Sciences, Cortona, Italy, September 1997.
"Computer Simulations and Empirical Testing of Sociological Theory", with Chanoch J acobsen, in
Sociological Methods and Research, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 479506, May 1995.
"Student Success in College Science through Structure and Support", with J udith Kaufman, in Journal of
College Science Teaching, vol.XXII, no. 4, pp. 245249, February 1993.
"Solving for Yield and Iteration Theory", with Gary Bronson, in Standard Securities Calculation
Methods, 3/e, ed. J an Mayle, Securities Industry Association, vol. I, pp. 127139, 1993. Based on
"Determining Bond Yield", in Fixed Income Quarterly Report, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 37, 1989 and vol. 2, no.
4, pp. 19, 1990.
"Structure and Support: The SOS Program at FDU", in Newsletter of the New Jersey Institute for
Collegiate Teaching and Learning, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 3 & 8, 1991.
"Modeling the Dynamics of Social Systems", with Chanoch J acobsen, in Computers and Mathematics
with Applications, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 3542, 1990.
"A Strategy for Testing the Empirical Adequacy of Macro-sociological Theories", with Chanoch J acobsen
and Daniel Vekstein, in Journal of Mathematical Sociology, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 137148, 1990.
"Emigration from Israel 19501981: A Simulation Study", with Chanoch J acobsen, in Israel Social
Science Review, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 5262, 1988/89.
"Thank You For Not Smoking: Simulating the Growth of a New Social Norm", with Chanoch J acobsen,
in Operational Research and Social Sciences, Plenum Press, NY, 1989, eds. M.C. J ackson, P. Keys, and
S.A. Cooper, pp. 531536.
"Estimating Functional Relationships in a Macrosociological Model", with Chanoch J acobsen and J ames
Crawford, in Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Mathematical Modelling, Pergamon
Press, NY, 1988, vol. II, pp. 386390.
"Tests for Validating Time Series Models", with Evangelis Yfantis, in Transactions of the Society for
Computer Simulation, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 7796, J anuary 1987.
"Defining Sociological Concepts as Variables for System Dynamics Modeling", with Chanoch J acobsen,
in System Dynamics Review, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 17, Winter 1987.
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"The Dynamo Simulation Language An Alternate Approach to Computer Science Education", in The
journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, vol. V, no. 4, pp. 4651, Summer 1986.
"Simulation and Social Theory", with Chanoch J acobsen, in Simulation, vol. 47, no. 2, pp. 5862, August
1986.
"System Dynamics Simulation of a Sociological Theory: Normative Systems in Contemporary Societies",
with Chanoch J acobsen, in Proceedings of the 11th IMACS Congress, vol. 4, pp. 365368, Oslo, Norway,
August 1985.
"Desktop Computers and Simulation", with R. Favreau et al., in Simulation, vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 4043,
J anuary 1985.
"Computer Simulation: What It Is and How It's Done", in Byte, vol. 9, no. 3,pp. 95102, March 1984.
"A First Course in Continuous Simulation", in Two-Year College Mathematics Journal, vol. 13, no. 5,
pp. 300310, November 1982.
"Continuous Simulation in the Classroom", with J . Hires et al., in Simulation, vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 126130,
April 1980.
"A Modified Pattern Search", in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. AC-25, no. 2, p. 306,
April 1980.
"Teaching Simulation in Industrial and Academic Settings", in Simulation, vol. 30, no. 6, pp. 203205,
J une 1978.
"Batch Processing Differential Equations on a Minicomputer", with Alan J ones, in The American
Mathematical Monthly, vol. 85, no. 4, pp. 272275, April 1978.
"An Optimal Normalization Scheme", with C. Giardina and L. Wallen, in IEEE Transactions on
Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. AES-11, no. 4, pp. 443446, J uly 1975.
"A Note on Conjugate Spaces", with Gilbert Steiner, in Mathematics Magazine, vol. 46, no. 3, p. 158,
May 1973.
"Norm Preserving Operators on Decomposable Tensors", in Mathematics Magazine, vol. 46, no. 2,
p. 100, March 1973.
"A Laurant Expansion for the Gain", with N.J . Rose, in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol.
AC-15, no. 3, pp. 368372, J une 1970.
"On Optimal Terminal Control", with N.J . Rose, in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. AC-14,
no. 5, pp. 443448, October 1969.
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^ "1999 Distinguished Teaching Award" (http://sections.maa.org/newjersey/archives/distinguished1999.html).
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