He was an instructor in mathematics at Concordia College in Moorhead, MN for several years. He completed his Ph.D. in operator theory from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1976, working under James M. Moeller. After serving as a lecturer in mathematics at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, he obtained a Master of Science in Information Engineering from UIC in 1980, working with Tadao Murata in the area of Petri networks. He has been at Roosevelt University in Chicago since 1980 and has previously served as Chair of the Department of Mathematical Sciences there for several years. His current interests include continued fractions and the graphing calculator.
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