Steve Kifowit's Publications & Presentations

Steve Kifowit - Selected Publications, Presentations, & Articles

A Closer Look at Bobo's Sequence (with Daniel T. Clancy), To appear.

Proof Without Words: A Series Involving Harmonic Sums, Mathematics Magazine, 80 (2007), p. 83

The Harmonic Series Diverges Again and Again (with Terra A. Stamps), The AMATYC Review, 27 (2006), pp. 31-43

Proof Without Words: A Partial Fraction Decomposition, The College Mathematics Journal, 36 (2005), p. 122

The Method of Gnomons and a New Scheme for Approximating Square Roots, The AMATYC Review, 24 (2003), pp. 57-63

More Proofs of Divergence of the Harmonic Series, unpublished

A Remarkably Elementary Proof of the Irrationality of e, unpublished

Some Sums via Integration by Parts, unpublished

Proof Without Words: A Harmonic Number Identity, unpublished

Serious About that 1 Series (Handout | Slides), 37th Annual Conference of the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges; Austin, TX; November 10, 2011

Serious About that 1 Series (Handout | Slides), 36th Annual Conference of the Illinois Mathematics Association of Community Colleges; Monticello, IL; April 1, 2011

Uncommon Approaches to Some Common Calculus Problems (Handout | Slides), 35th Annual Conference of the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges; Las Vegas, NV; November 12, 2009

Serious About the Harmonic Series II (Handout | Slides), 31st Annual Conference of the Illinois Mathematics Association of Community Colleges; Monticello, IL; March 31, 2006

Serious About the Harmonic Series (Handout | Slides), 31st Annual Conference of the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges; San Diego, CA; November 10, 2005

Assessing Conceptual Understanding in the Calculus Sequence, Placement and Assessment Themed Sessions, 30th Annual Conference of the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges; Orlando, FL; November 18, 2004

Tabular Integration by Parts - A Jewel in the Rough, 28th Annual Conference of the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges; Phoenix, AZ; November 16, 2002

A Superfast Version of the Split Schur Algorithm, 7th Annual Conference of the International Linear Algebra Society; Madison, WS; June 5, 1998

Steve Kifowit
Prairie State College
Chicago Heights, IL 60411