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Philip Ording

Associate Professor

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Department
Math and Science
School
School of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Email
pording@pratt.edu
Phone
718.636.3764

Biography

Philip Ording is Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Science. In addition to teaching mathematics at Columbia University, The City University of New York, and Sarah Lawrence College, he has worked as a consultant in art and design studios throughout New York since 2003. He is author of the award-winning book 99 Variations on a Proof (Princeton, 2019) and coeditor of Simplicity: Ideals of Practice in Mathematics and the Arts (Springer, 2017). His research and writing appear in the American Journal of Mathematics, Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications, Cabinet, Bulletins of the Serving Library, American Mathematical Society History of Mathematics series, and elsewhere.

Education

MFA, Writing, Sarah Lawrence College

PhD, Mathematics, Columbia University

BA, Mathematics, Columbia University

Current Courses

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