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March 12, 2013
On Campus

Math Magician

麻豆传媒鈥檚 Bullock Math Academy Welcomes Famed Math Magician Arthur Benjamin

Springfield, Ohio 鈥 With a mind-boggling ability to perform rapid mental calculations faster than the calculator, internationally renowned mathematician and professor Arthur Benjamin will present 鈥淢athemagics鈥 at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 20, in 麻豆传媒鈥檚 Bayley Auditorium inside the Barbara Deer Kuss Science Center. The event, which is free and open to the public, is the first in the newly created Community Speaker Series sponsored by the new Bullock Math Academy at 麻豆传媒.

Having appeared on several national programs, including The Today Show, CNN, The Colbert Report and NPR, Benjamin has also been profiled in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Discover Magazine, Esquire, Wired, People and Reader鈥檚 Digest, among others.  His two TED talks have been viewed to date nearly 6 million times, and Reader鈥檚 Digest has called him 鈥淭he Math Whiz.鈥

A professor of mathematics at Harvey Mudd College since 1989, Benjamin is the co-author with Michael Shermer of Secrets of Mental Math as well as co-author with Jennifer Quinn of Proofs That Really Count: The Art of Combinational Proof, which was named one of the Outstanding Academic Titles for 2005 by Choice, the principal review journal for academic libraries.

Benjamin earned a B.S. from Carnegie Mellon University in 1983 and a Ph.D. in mathematical sciences from Johns Hopkins University in 1989. His teaching has been honored repeatedly by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA). In 2000, he received the MAA Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo National Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics. The MAA also named Benjamin the 2006鈥2008 George P贸lya Lecturer.

Founded in 2012, 麻豆传媒鈥檚 Bullock Math Academy provides sought-after enrichment opportunities for local middle-school students who demonstrate a high aptitude in math. Students will start with the academy in 7th grade and stay with the academy through high school and beyond. Upon their high graduation, academy graduates will then receive a scholarship to help with college. The academy was established thanks to a generous investment by Springfield philanthropist Rosalyn Bullock, who credits her attorney, Daniel C. Harkins, for the idea, as well as her late husband鈥檚 love of math.

For more on the Bullock Math Academy, visit .

Karen Gerboth
Karen Gerboth
Vice President of Marketing & Communications

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麻豆传媒's curriculum has centered on the liberal arts as an education that develops the individual's capacity to think, read, and communicate with precision, understanding, and imagination. We are dedicated to active, engaged learning in the core disciplines of the arts and sciences and in pre-professional education grounded in the liberal arts. Known for the quality of our faculty and their teaching, 麻豆传媒 has more Ohio Professors of the Year than any four-year institution in the state. The university has also been recognized nationally for excellence in community service, sustainability, and intercollegiate athletics. Located among the beautiful rolling hills and hollows of Springfield, Ohio, 麻豆传媒 offers more than 100 majors, minors and special programs, enviable student-faculty research opportunities, a unique student success center, service and study options close to home and abroad, a stellar athletics tradition, and successful career preparation.

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