VITA

 Name: Jimmie Randolph Ridenhour

Department of Mathematics
Austin Peay State University
Clarksville., TN 37044

Phone: 931-221-7825

E-Mail: ridenhourj@apsu.edu

Web Page: www.apsu.edu/ridenhourj

Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Tennessee, 1972
M.A. in Mathematics from Central Missouri State University, 1967
B.S. in Physics and Mathematics from Central Missouri State University, 1966

1982-present: Professor of Mathematics, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN

1975-1982: Associate Professor of Mathematics, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN

1972-1975: Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN

1967-1968: Graduate Assistant at the University of Tennessee

1966-1967: Graduate Assistant at Central Missouri State University

Applicable Mathematics including Classical Analysis 
Integral Transforms
Differential Equations
Mathematical Statistics
Numerical Methods

Courses Taught

Introduction to Programming I
Introduction to Programming II
Elementary and College Algebra
Mathematics for General Education
Calculus and Analytic Geometry
Elementary Statistics
Differential Equations
Methods of Applied Mathematics
Mathematical Logic
Number Theory
Vector Analysis
Complex Variables
Probability
Mathematical Statistics
Numerical Analysis
Theory of Equations
Mathematics of Finance
Calculator Workshops
Computer Workshops
Advanced Calculus

American Statistical Association
Mathematical Association of America
Tennessee Mathematics Teachers Association
Tennessee Academy of Science

Publications

"Exhaustive Sampling and  Related Binomial Identities", pp.  306-309,  THE COLLEGE MATHEMATICS JOURNAL, Vol. 37, No. 4, September 2006 (with David Grimmett)

"The Effect of a Variable Data Point on Hypothesis Tests for Means", pp. 145-150, THE AMERICAN STATISTICIAN, Vol. 50, No. 2, May 1996 (with David Grimmett)

"Gaskets Galore", pp. 262-268, MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTER EDUCATION, Vol. 29, No. 3, Fall 1995

Problem 71 in MISSOURI JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES, Vol 6, No 2, 1994

"Spiders, Computers, and Markov Chains", pp. 323-326, THE COLLEGE MATHEMATICS JOURNAL, Vol 21, No. 4, September 1990

"Summations Involving Computer-Related Functions", THE MATHEMATICS MAGAZINE, pp. 191-196, Vol 62, No. 3, June 1989

 "Ladder Approximations of Irrational Numbers," THE MATHEMATICS MAGAZINE, pp. 95-105, Vol 59, No. 2, April, 1986

 "The Probability of Winning in MacDonald's Star Raiders Contest," THE MATHEMATICS TEACHER, pp. 124-128, Vol 77, No. 2, February, 1984

"An Interesting Probability Problem," THE MATHEMATICS TEACHER, pp. 765-768, Vol 75, No. 9, December 1982

"Parseval Relation and Tauberian Theorems for the Hankel Transform," SIAM JOURNAL FOR MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS, pp. 809-821, Vol 5, No. 5, October, 1974

 Presentations at Professional Meetings

  "The Influence of Outliers On Hypothesis Tests for Means", (Spring, 1994 meeting of the Mathematical Association of America at Carson Newman University)

 "Computer Approximation of PI", (Spring 1987 meeting of the Tennessee Mathematics Teachers Association at Nashville, TN)

 "Miscellanea on PI", (Spring 1986 meeting of the Mathematical Association of America at Auburn , AL)

"Scalene Partitions of Positive Integers", (Spring 1981 Meeting of the Southeastern Section of the Mathematical Association of America at Birmingham, AL)"

"Scalene Partitions of Positive Integers", (Fall 1981 Meeting of the Tennessee Academy of Science at Clarksville, TN)

 "Classroom Applications of Microprocessors", (Fall 1978 meeting of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics at Louisville, KY)

"Eudoxus Ladders", (Fall 1977 meeting of the Tennessee Academy of Science at Cookeville, TN)

"Mathematics on a Billiard Table", (Fall 1976 meeting of the Tennessee Academy of Science at Chattanooga, TN)

"Polynomial Solutions of Differential Equations", (Fall 1970 meeting of the Southeastern Section of the American Mathematical Society at Athens, GA)