Juilliard fellow in piano for five years before turning to mathematics.
Nine years in naval operations research.
PhD, Columbia University (age 36); dissertation in transfinite numbers.
Taught for 35 years at Purdue, Rochester, and Texas; retired in 1987.
Two years at the Institute for Advanced Study, one as a Guggenheim fellow (silver anniversary of Juilliard).
Books: Rings of Continuous Functions, a graduate text (with Meyer Jerison); Calculus, an undergraduate text (with R. H. McDowell); Writing Mathematics Well, an MAA booklet.
AMS Associate Secretary for two years.
MAA Treasurer for 13 years and President-Elect--President--Past-President for four.
At the AMS centennial banquet in Atlanta in 1988, conducted 2000 mathematicians singing Happy Birthday Dear American Mathematical Society.
Performed as pianist at four national mathematics meetings, two with Louis Rowen, cello (1976, 1980), and two with William Browder, flute (1989, 1992).