Bruce Cooperstein

Bruce Cooperstein was born in New York City and attended public schools there including Stuyvestant High School and Queens College of the City University of New York. He received his PhD from the University of Michigan in 1975 and was a recipient of the Meyers Award for the best dissertation in Mathematics that year.

He has been employed at the University of California, Santa Cruz since 1975, as a Full Professor since 1989. He is the author of over fifty mathematics papers in referred journals and proceedings of conferences .

Bruce has won two prestigious awards, a W.K. Kellogg National Fellowship in 1982 and a Pew National Fellowship for Carnegie Scholars in 1999. Bruce was a Visiting Research Mathematician at the Mathematiche Centrum in Amsterdam in Spring, 1982, a visitor at the University of Siena (Italy) in Fall, 2002, and a Visiting Fellow at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in Spring 2007. His course porfolio on Learning to Think Mathematically about his course in Mathematical Problem Solving can be viewed at the Gallery of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning hosted by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

In addition to Advanced Linear Algebra, Bruce is also the author of several mathematics textbooks (two, An Introduction to Groups, Rings, and Fields and Elementary Linear Algebra, available at the Worldwide Center for Mathematics). Other books that he has written are: A Quick Guide Computing Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors and The Elementary Linear Algebra Recipe Book available from lulu.com

Bruce has also authored numerous co-ed pieces which have appeared in papers from the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Houston Chronicle, and the Los Angeles Times to the Miami Herald and the San Jose Mercury News on topics ranging from education, politics, economics, foreign policy and environment. He is currently the book and media editor of the new journal Solutions.