Skip to main content Accessibility help
×
Hostname: page-component-7479d7b7d-fwgfc Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-10T13:32:40.507Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
This chapter is part of a book that is no longer available to purchase from Cambridge Core

Michael G. Monticino

Michael G. Monticino
Affiliation:
University of North Texas
Get access

Summary

Without mathematics my life would be considerably less interesting. I have worked on problems ranging from evaluating anti-submarine warfare tactics to forecasting cash inventory needs for a major check cashing company. I spent a summer in South Korea analyzing techniques for detecting North Korean invasion tunnels and another summer working for IBM developing statistical techniques for determining preferences of Internet website visitors.

Entering college, I was fascinated by virtually every subject. I ended up a mathematics major because of a 15 minute conversation. The chair of the mathematics department at the University of Florida, whose abstract algebra class I was taking, struck up a conversation with me one day after class about my career aspirations. His few minutes of guidance and encouragement literally changed my life.

I received my PhD in mathematics from the University of Miami in 1987. I had every intention of pursuing the standard academic career path. However, I was introduced to the captivating world of applying mathematics to help solve real-world problems during a job interview at an AMS-MAA Joint Mathematics Meeting. As a result of that interview, I accepted a position as an Associate for Daniel H. Wagner Associates, a mathematical consulting company. At Wagner, I worked on problems in anti-submarine warfare, acoustic modeling and optimal ship routing using mathematical techniques from optimal control, stochastic processes, game theory, search theory, and probability.

Type
Chapter
Information
Publisher: Mathematical Association of America
Print publication year: 2014

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure coreplatform@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Available formats
×