User Portlet

Steven Finch received his B.A. in Mathematics from Oberlin College in 1982 and his M.S. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) in 1985. He initially worked in statistical weather forecasting, first at TASC and then at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. He subsequently was a technical writer at MathSoft Inc., held biostatistics programming positions at the Boston University School of Public Health and at Tufts-New England Medical Center, and served as Statistical Computing Scientist/Preceptor at the Harvard University Department of Statistics for nearly ten years. He is grateful to the MIT Sloan School of Management for his current role as Research Computing Specialist. Finch is also honored to have received a Book Fellowship from the Clay Mathematics Institute beginning in 2004, and a Ford award for expository excellence in 2005. His many years as a classroom instructor and his two-volume encyclopedia "Mathematical Constants" (Cambridge University Press, 2003/2019) together express who he is: a teacher/writer who delights in research and a scientific/statistical programmer who excels in detail.