Calculus&Mathematica: Jerry Uhl

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Jerry Uhl is native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He did his undergraduate work at the College of William and Mary and his graduate work in mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University. After a two year stint as chief of the Scientific Analysis Section of the Defense Intelligence Agency Computer Center, he came to the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign in 1968 and has remained at Illinois ever since.

While at Illinois, he has supervised eleven mathematics Ph. D. theses and was co-author of two books: Vector Measures (with Joseph Diestel ) and The Mathematics of Nonlinear Programming, 1987 (with Francis Sullivan and Tony Peressini . Uhl is also author or coauthor of a collection of research papers. For most of the 1980's, he served as real analysis editor of the research journal Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society and served one term as managing editor of the same journal. He also served one term on the Council of the American Mathematical Society . Since 1988, Uhl has devoted nearly all his energies to Calculus&Mathematica.

Over the years, he has lectured in nearly every state of the continental United States and in England, Ireland, Germany, Switzerland, Puerto Rico, Singapore and South Africa.

[Jerry at a BBQ] Jerry Uhl (center) at one of his famous BBQ's.

In addition to his obsession with Calculus&Mathematica, Uhl is also interested in breeding Bernese Mountain Dogs, growing trees native to Illinois, collecting beer steins, drinking great cognac, remembering pre- Amtrak passenger railroading and inspecting old cars.

But when all is said and done, nothing makes Uhl happier than to talk with a student whose math passions have been turned on by Calculus&Mathematica.

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