2019 Topic: Suicide, Accident or Political Assassination? The Enigma of Alan Turing’s Death
Biography:
After earning a BA in mathematics and philosophy at the University of Michigan and an MA and PhD from the University of Wisconsin (Madison), Michael Olinick moved from the Midwest to New England where he joined the Middlebury College faculty in 1970 and now serves as Professor of Mathematics. Dr. Olinick has held visiting positions at University College Nairobi, University of California at Berkeley, Wesleyan University, and Lancaster University in Great Britain. He is the author or co-author of a number of books on single and multivariable calculus, mathematical modeling, probability, topology, and principles and practice of mathematics. He is currently developing a new textbook on mathematical models in the humanities, social, and life sciences.