Friendly Mathematics Competition Thirty-Five Years of Teamwork in Indiana

Rick Gillman is a native Hoosier. He was born in Batesville (near Cincinnati), grow up in Richmond, went to high school in Indianapolis, and to college in Muncie (Ball State University). After a four-year hiatus in Pocatello, Idaho, earning his Doctorate of Arts at Idaho State University, he returned to Indiana to work at Valparaiso University, where he's been for the past seventeen years. He has been active in the Indiana Section of the MAA and has served as Student Activities Coordinator, Secretary-Treasurer, and Vice-Chair. In 2001, he received the section's Distinguished Service Award. A combinatorialist by training, he has published papers on a variety of topics, but his real interest is in helping undergraduates to become mathematicians. He mentors student research teams almost every year, resulting in some publications and many students going on to be successful in pure and applied mathematics.Gillman, Rick is the author of 'Friendly Mathematics Competition Thirty-Five Years of Teamwork in Indiana' with ISBN 9780883858080 and ISBN 0883858088.