Professor Bettye Anne Case

Complex Analysis

Collegiate Mathematics Education

History of Mathematics

After publishing papers in univalent function theory and the history of mathematics, and motivated by departmental priorities, I shifted to considerations in collegiate mathematics education. My investigations on undergraduate and graduate curriculum issues and preparation for college teaching are documented by publications and presentations and I have had grant support along these lines (e.g.; You're the Professor, What Next, published 1994 as MAA Notes #35 resulted from FIPSE Department of Education support.)

I am involved in a several-year grant and writing project directed by Proposer Suzanne Lambert, University of Tennessee, which will extend and update some of my publications in the 80s and early 90s.

I have turned my primary research attention to history, biography and sociology of mathematics (see A Century of Mathematical Meetings published 1996 by the AMS). I have directed one option (c) master's degree with a concentration in history of mathematics. On a recent sabbatical at Brown University

While serving as undergraduate coordinator in the department in the 1980's, I became concerned that we did not have a focused undergraduate major option for students interested in careers in Actuarial Science. I instigated and with the cooperation of departmental, statistics, and risk management colleagues, set up an interdisciplinary program. I teach the courses in theory of interest and life contingencies. I have direct master's degree students with this career goal. (See Actuarial Guide.)

I teach the specialized Actuarial Science courses, available to undergraduate and graduate students; they are offered in Fall Semester only:

MAP 4170 - MAT 5907: Introduction to Actuarial Science (M 2:30-3:20; TR 2-3:15)

MAP 4175 - MAP 5177: Contingency Theory (M 11:15-12:05; TR 11-12:15)

While working with actuarial students and curriculum as well as our own PhD candidates and graduates I have realized the scope of employment possibilities which are keenly interesting for them in the financial sector. This led to my organizing planning sessions and in developing a new interdisciplinary program for graduate students interested in Financial Mathematics. Currently, with the first entering group to be Fall 1998, I am involved with faculty from three colleges and in supporting their opportunities and progress.

In addition to service on the Florida State University Faculty Senate and many departmental committees, I have held numerous offices and committee appointments in four mathematics professional societies at the national and state levels.

As Meetings Coordinator of the Association for Women in Mathematics, I am involved with all of the workshops, programs, and lectures of the organization and serve on the Executive Committee. Professor Krystyna Kuperberg, Auburn University, will present the organization's prestigious Noether Lecture in January 1999.

Faculty Sponsor of

Florida State Pi Mu Epsilon Beta Chapter

Florida State Student Actuarial Society

Also see Olga Taussky-Todd Symposium (July 31-August 2, 1999).