Ken Kunen

[Sara L. Uckelman]

> Ken was a popular teacher of both undergraduate and graduate courses 
> with an eloquent and incisive lecture style. His office has been full of 
> model polyhedra made over the years by the students in his  Geometry for 
> Elementary School Teachers class.

I was lucky enough to take two classes with him in the early 00's -- as 
a philosophy graduate student who hadn't had any mathematics since 
pre-calculus in high school, he took me into his graduate level 
foundations of math class, and later welcomed me back for an upper level 
undergrad class on linear algebra.  I learned so much from him, not 
least of which was "how to be a good teacher", because he was one of the 
best I had.

When I learned of his death on Sunday, I wrote up a blog post with my 
remembrances of him: 
https://diaryofdoctorlogic.wordpress.com/2020/08/16/in-memoriam-ken-kunen/ 
  It too mentions the model polyhedra in his office!

-Sara


-- 
Dr. Sara L. Uckelman
Department of Philosophy
Durham University
http://community.dur.ac.uk/s.l.uckelman/

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