1. Arnold Ephraim Ross was a mathematician and educator who founded the Ross Mathematics Program, a number theory summer program for gifted high school students.
36 Facts About Arnold Ross
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Arnold Ross was born in Chicago, but spent his youth in Odesa, Ukraine, where he studied with Samuil Shatunovsky.
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Arnold Ross started a teacher training program in mathematics that evolved into the Ross Mathematics Program in 1957 with the addition of high school students.
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Arnold Ross had worked with over 2,000 students during more than forty summers.
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Arnold Ross's program inspired several offshoots and was recognized by mathematicians as highly influential.
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Arnold Ross has received an honorary doctorate and several professional association awards for his instruction and service.
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Arnold Ross's mother supported the family as a physical therapist.
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Arnold Ross returned to Odesa, Ukraine with his mother in 1909 for assistance from her extended family, and stayed once World War I and the Russian Revolution broke out.
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Arnold Ross learned Russian at the behest of his mother, and developed a love of the theater and language.
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Arnold Ross's mother encouraged him to read, which he did often, and subscribed to a private library since Odesa had no public library.
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Arnold Ross credited his favorite uncle, an X-ray diagnostician, with introducing him to mathematics.
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The uncle had hired Samuil Shatunovsky to tutor his talented son, and Arnold Ross asked to join in.
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Arnold Ross changed his surname from Chaimovich to Ross in 1922.
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Arnold Ross used his salary from a year at the shop to enroll for one term at the University of Chicago in Moore's course.
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Arnold Ross found Moore's method exciting, and his pedagogy influenced Arnold Ross's own.
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Arnold Ross's dissertation was entitled "On Representation of Integers by Indefinite Ternary Quadratic Forms".
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Arnold Ross did not pay tuition after his first quarter, which he credits to Dickson.
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Arnold Ross married Bertha Halley Horecker, a singer-musician and daughter of Arnold Ross's Chicago neighbors, in 1931, received a National Research Council Fellowship for 1932, and worked as a National Research Council postdoctoral fellow at California Institute of Technology with Eric Temple Bell until 1933.
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Arnold Ross moved back to Chicago and led the mathematics department at an experimental school started by Ph.
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Arnold Ross became an assistant professor at St Louis University in 1935 and stayed for about 11 years.
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Arnold Ross befriended Hungarian mathematician Gabor Szego while in St Louis, who recommended Ross for a 1941 Brown University summer school that prepared young scientists to assist in the war, a program Ross attended.
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Arnold Ross occasionally worked on proximity fuzes for Stromberg-Carlson's laboratory from 1941 to 1945 before accepting a position as head of University of Notre Dame's mathematics department in 1946.
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Arnold Ross set out to change the school's research climate by inviting distinguished mathematicians including Paul Erdos, whom Ross made a full professor.
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In 1957, the program expanded via the National Science Foundation's post-Sputnik funds for teacher retraining, and Arnold Ross let high school students attend.
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Arnold Ross left Notre Dame to become chair of Ohio State University's mathematics department in 1963, and the program followed in the 1964 summer.
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Arnold Ross reached his mandatory retirement from Ohio State University in 1976, when he became Professor Emeritus, but continued to run the summer program through 2000, after which he had a stroke that left him physically impaired and unable to teach.
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Arnold Ross received an honorary doctorate from Denison University in 1984, the 1985 Mathematics Association of America Award for Distinguished Service, the 1998 MAA Citation for Public Service, and was named an American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow in 1988.
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Arnold Ross's teaching awards include Ohio State's Distinguished Teaching and Service Awards, and membership on the National Science Foundation's science education advisory board.
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Arnold Ross helped begin similar programs in West Germany, India, and Australia.
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Arnold Ross consulted for an Indian gifted children program in 1973, assisted in an Australian National University January summer program for talented youth based on Ross's own from 1975 to 1983, and helped start another program in Heidelberg, Germany in 1978.
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Arnold Ross had previously created other mathematics programs, including the teacher training program and another program for Columbus, Ohio inner city middle and high school students called "Horizons Unlimited" in 1970.
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Arnold Ross's colleagues said he "lived only for his summer program" in this period.
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Arnold Ross later met a French widow of a diplomat, Madeleine Green, and they married in 1990.
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Arnold Ross had run each of his summer programs from 1957 to 2000, working with over 2,000 students.
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The Arnold Ross Program was acclaimed by mathematicians as highly influential.
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The Arnold Ross Program inspired many similar programs, the closest in likeness being the Program in Mathematics for Young Scientists at Boston University and the Honors Math Camp at Southwest Texas State University.