Steve Maurer is Neil R. Grabois '57 Professor in the Natural Sciences and Engineering, and former Chair of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, at Swarthmore College, a leading American 4-year undergraduate liberal arts institution. He received his B.A. from Swarthmore as well (1967), before receiving his PhD from Princeton (1972). In addition to being faculty at Swarthore and ECLA, he has been faculty at Princeton (1974-79), the University of Waterloo in Canada (1973-74) and the Phillips Exeter Academy (1969-73). Since 2003 he has spent Julys teaching at MathPath, an international enrichment program for students age 11-14; since 2006 he has been its Academic Director.

Steve is visiting ECLA for Winter Term, 2012.  He previously visited in Fall 2007. He is teaching a mathematics course for those ECLA students who (rightly) wish to keep exercising their brain in that important mode of thought.  After consulting with students in advance about what topics would be best, he chose Logic and the Nature of Mathematics. He also is preparing to participate in a Euclid reading group.

Steve is an authority on discrete mathematics, writing in mathematics, and American pre-university curriculum and enrichment activities. His research has been in combinatorics, with forays into mathematical biology, economics and anthropology. He is the author (with Anthony Ralston) of the textbook, Discrete Algorithmic Mathematics (Addison-Wesley, 1990; A.K. Peters, 1998 and 2004) and (with George Berzsenyi) of The Contest Problem Book V (MAA, 1997). The latter book arose from the period when he was chair of all the school contests of the MAA (Mathematical Association of America). He is currently editor of the Notes Series of books from the MAA.

For publications and other details, see his Swarthmore webpage, which also links to his CV.