Eugene Boman

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Biography

Eugene Boman received his BA from Reed College in 1984, his MA in 1986 and his Ph.D. in 1993; both of the latter were from the University of Connecticut. He has been teaching math at The Pennsylvania State University since 1996, first at the DuBois campus (1996-2006) and then at the Harrisburg campus. In 2008 he won the Carl B. Allendorfer Award for excellence in expository mathematical writing from the editors of Mathematics Magazine, for the article “Mom! There’s an Asteroid in My Closet” (Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 80 (2007), pp. 247-273).