Alan Tucker
Distinguished Teaching Professor
Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Distinguished Teaching Professor, Ph.D., 1969
Stanford University: Combinatorics
Alan Tucker is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society and of the American Assocation
for the Advancement of Science. He is editor-in-chief of Applied Mathematical Letters and author of the textbookApplied Combinatorics, now in its 6th edition. Alan started his career at Stony Brook doing research in
graph theory and combinatorial algorithms. Increasingly he became more engaged in
mathematics education. He directed large regional and national NSF initiatives to
improve collegiate and K-12 mathematics instruction. He was the lead author of four
influential reports from the Mathematical Association of America, including The Mathematical Education of Teachers (2001).