Cliff Reiter was born and grew up in central New Jersey. His
doctoral thesis, done under the direction of Wen-Ching (Winnie) Li,
concerned lower bounds on the fundamental units of real quadratic
fields. Part of that work grew out of symbolic algebra
computations that he programmed in APL. He continues to seek
opportunities for application of computers to both research
problems and teaching. He is enthusiastic about using high level
programming languages for that work and has been quite successful
at combining his teaching and research by engaging undergraduates
in his research work. His research has continued in elementary
number theory and has extended to topics in dynamics and
mathematical visualization. He is the coauthor of a textbook APL
with a Mathematical Accent and he is the author of the text
Fractals, Visualization and J now in its third edition.
He was the principal investigator for a
National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates
program at Lafayette College from 1992 to 1997 and had NSF
supported work on chaos and crystallographic symmetry during the
summers of 1998-1999. His recent work with students has involved
perfect parallelepipeds and 3-dimensional quasicrystals.
His techincal visualization skills and
passion for hiking in the Adirondacks led to the book: Witness the Forever Wild, a Guide to Favorite
Hikes around the Adirondack High Peaks. The fourth edition of of his visualization book
Fractals, Visualization and J has recently appeared.
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Bucknell University, l975-l978, B.S., summa cum laude, Mathematics
Rutgers University, l978-l980, M.S., Mathematics
Pennsylvania State University, l980-l984, Ph.D., Mathematics
Lafayette College, 1983-present
currently a Professor of Mathematics
Number Theory, Mathematical Visualization, Dynamics, Computational
Mathematics. High level computer languages such as: APL,
Mathematica, and J.
Cliff's Home page
Cliff's publications
Lafayette Mathematics Department