The Nature of Proof: A Symposium. (5) Dennis DeTurck (Penn)

Published: Nov. 14, 2012, 5:37 p.m.

Dennis DeTurck is the Robert A. Fox Leadership Professor in the School of Arts and Sciences of the University of Pennsylvania, Professor of Mathematics, and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. This year he and his coauthors, Herman Gluck, Daniel Pomerleano and David Shea Vela-Vick, were awarded the Chauvenet Prize of the Mathematical Association of America for their paper “The Four Vertex Theorem and its Converse.” He has also received the SAS Ira Abrams Award for Distinguished Teaching, the University’s Lindback Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the M.A.A.’s Haimo Award for Distinguished Teaching.