Bruce Cooperstein: Elementary Linear Algebra
Bruce Cooperstein received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Michigan in 1975. He has been on the faculty of the University of California, Santa Cruz continuously since 1975, obtaining the rank of full professor in 1989. He has won two prestigious awards, a W.K.Kellogg National Fellowship (1982-85) and a Pew National Scholarship for Carnegie Scholars (1999-2000). Bruce’s research areas include finite groups, groups of Lie Type, Lie geometries, incidence and Galois geometry. He is author of one of the first on-line course portfolios, Learning to Think Mathematically. and is the author of over 50 papers that have appeared in referred journals and proceedings of conferences. Bruce was a visiting Fellow of the Carnegie Foundation in Spring, 2007, and has also been involved in mathematics teacher professional development and mathematics education for over two decades.