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Bonnie Averbach

Life and career[edit]

Averbach was born in 1933,^[1] and earned a master's degree in mathematics from Temple University in 1955, with the thesis "Definitions of the Lebesgue integral".^[2] Around 1965, she returned to Temple University as a faculty member.^[3] Originally affiliated with the Department of Mathematics, she changed her affiliation in 1987, to the Department of Risk Management and Insurance,^[4] where for many years she directed Temple's actuarial science program. In 2007, Temple's Fox School of Business and Management gave her their lifetime achievement award.^[3] She died on October 16, 2019.^[5]

Books[edit]

Averbach's books include:

• Problem Solving Through Recreational Mathematics (with Orin Chein, W. H. Freeman, 1980; reprinted by Dover, 2000)^[6]
• Mathematics with Applications for the Management, Life, and Social Sciences (with Bernard Kolman and Howard Anton, 3rd ed., Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988; 4th ed., Saunders College Publishing, 1992)^[7]
• Applied Finite Mathematics (with Bernard Kolman and Howard Anton, 5th ed., Saunders College Publishing, 1992)^[8]

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