Professional and Biographical Information
Degrees
Ph.D., MIT (1964)
A.B., Harvard College (1958)
A.M. (honorary), Amherst College (1978)
Research Interests
Expository writing about misuses of data and of mathematics
Novel uses of undergraduate mathematical analysis, in estimation and in graphics
Teaching Interests
Analysis and Probability
Awards and Honors
Goodwin Medal and Prize for conspicuously effective teaching, MIT, 1962
Lithograph of "Tecumseh" selected for display in the juried National Prints and Drawings Exhibition, Warbeke Gallery, Mount Holyoke, 1976
Biographical sketch (by Franke) and five computer drawings presented in Computergrafik-Galerie, Herbert W. Franke, DuMont Buchverlag, Köln, 1984, pp. 133-135.
Invited contributor to the exhibit printmaking: at the speed of thought, The Print Club, Philadelphia, Nov.-Dec., 1989
Seven works exhibited at Kunsthalle Bremen, June – August, 2007, in the show Ex Machina – Frühe Computergrafik bis 1979, and illustrated in the show catalog.
Scholarly and Professional Activities (recent)
Invited participant, IPP26, Boston, July 2006
Invited participant, G4G7 (conference honoring Martin Gardner, Atlanta), March 2006
Contributed talk, annual meeting of the Math. Assoc. of Amer., San Antonio, Jan. 14, 2006
Contributed talk, annual meeting of the Math. Assoc. of Amer., Atlanta, Jan; 6, 2005
Regular contributor to "Media Highlights" column, College Math. Journal
Links
My other web site (amherst.edu/~nstarr/)
Chance News 6.10 (Item #5: Nonrandom risk: The 1970 draft lottery)
Chance News 18 (Item #4: How to Lie with Statistics Turns Fifty); My review
Computer Graphics in Historical Perspective
Wikipedia: Draft Lottery (1969)
Demos with Positive Impact: Trominos and Sixway lamp
Wolfram: Starr Rose Mesh
Article: Linda Hall Library Exhibit
Updated 6-2015See also: Selected Publications