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The level of public understanding of mathematics is in marked contrast to the importance of this science to society. Many of our contemporaries think that mathematics is a field where the relevant results were established centuries ago and that there are few, if any, connections with real life. The aim of this webpage is to decrease the gap between the common understanding and the real truth.
My name is David Richeson. I am a Professor of Mathematics at Dickinson College. I graduated from Hamilton College in 1993 with a degree in mathematics, and I received a Ph.D. in mathematics from Northwestern University in 1998. I came to Dickinson after a postdoctoral position at Michigan State University.
