FREDERICK NORWOOD

Professor
308E Gilbreath Hall
(423) 439-6972
E-mail address: norwoodr@etsu.edu

B.A. (1966) University of Southwestern Louisiana
M.S. (1969) University of California, Riverside
Ph.D. (1979) University of Southwestern Louisiana

Research interests: Knot Theory, Topology.

Publications:

  1. R. Norwood, Every Two-Generator Knot is Prime, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 86(1) (1982) 143-147.
  2. R. Norwood, Long Proofs, American Mathematical Monthly, 89(2) (1982) 110-112.
  3. R. Norwood, Monsters and Manifolds, The Wilson Quarterly, (1982) 98-111.
  4. R. Norwood, The Prisoner's Card Game, The Mathematical Intellegencer, 4(3) (1982) 116-117.
  5. R. Norwood, In Abstract Terrain, The Sciences, 22(9) (1982) 12-18.
  6. R. Norwood, Multidungeon, For the Learning of Mathematics, 6(2) (1986) 47-48.
  7. R. Norwood, Money is Irrational, Mathematics Magazine, 61(2) (1988) 101-102.
  8. W. Dotson and R. Norwood, Distances in an Array, Proceedings of the IEEE, (1988) 382-385.
  9. R. Norwood, Curves on surfaces, Topology and its Applications, 33 (1989) 1-6.
  10. M. Laidacker, G. Poole, and R. Norwood, The Worm Problem of Leo Moser, Discrete and Computational Geometry, 7 (1992) 153-162
  11. W. Dotson, C. Taylor, and R. Norwood, Fibonacci and Fiberoptics, Mathematics Magazine, 66(3) 167-174.
  12. W. Dotson, C. Taylor, and R. Norwood, Reliability Polynomial for Ring Network, IEEE Transactions on Communications, 41(6) (1993) 825-827.
  13. R. Norwood, How to Make Pi Equal to Three, The American Mathematical Monthly, 99(2) (1992) 111.
  14. R. Norwood, More on Pi, The American Mathematical Monthly, 100(6) (1993) 577.
  15. J. Kinloch and R. Norwood, The Spirit is Willing but the Ham is Rotten, The American Mathematical Monthly, 101(5) (1994) 470.
  16. R. Norwood, The Evolution of the Will, Philosophy of Science, 6 (1995) 143-151.
  17. R. Norwood, Why 2+2 Equals 2x2, Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 71, No. 1, p. 60, February 1998.
  18. R. Norwood, A Star to Guide Us, Mathematics Teacher, Vol. 92, No. 2, p. 100-101, February 1999.
  19. R. Norwood, Turning Double Torus Links Inside Out, Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications, Vol. 8, No. 6 (1999) 789-798.
  20. R. Norwood, The Test of Time, Mathematics Teacher, Vol. 93, No. 3, p. 252-253, March 2000.
  21. R. Norwood and G. Poole, An Improved Upper Bound to Leo Moser’s Worm Problem, Discrete & Computational Geometry, Vol. 29 (2003) 409-417.
  22. M. Marks, R. Norwood, and G. Poole, The Maximum Number of 2x2 Odd Submatrices in (0-1) Matrices, Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra and Applications, 10:223-231 (2003).
  23. R. Norwood, The Gostak and the Doshes”, Math Horizons, April 2004.
  24. R. Norwood, A Call for Action, Focus, Vol. 24 (2004) 10-12.

Personal: Hobbies include science fiction and classic comic strips.

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