Barbara Trader Faires

Barbara Trader Faires (born 1943) was a mathematics professor, department chair, and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Westminster College in Pennsylvania and served for 8 years as Secretary[1] of the Mathematical Association of America.[2] She is now retired and living in Pulaski Township, Pennsylvania.

Faires earned her undergraduate degree at East Carolina University, double-majoring in mathematics and business.[2] She earned her doctorate at Kent State University in 1974; her dissertation title was "On Grothendieck Spaces and Vector Measures" and completed under the supervision of Joseph Diestel.[3] Faires extended her studies into computer science during a sabbatical leave at Carnegie Mellon University where she also had a visiting position. Another visiting position took her to Westminster College in Oxford, UK.[2]

She was married to mathematician J. Douglas Faires (1941-2012)[4] who taught at nearby Youngstown University in Youngstown, Ohio. Together they authored several calculus textbooks.[5]

Selected publications
  • Faires, Barbara (1974). "On Vitali–Hahn–Saks Type Theorems" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 80 (4): 670–74. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1974-13541-x.
  • Faires, Barbara. (1978) "Varieties and Vector Measures". Mathematische Nachrichten, 85 (1), https://doi.org/10.1002/mana.19780850122.
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References
  1. "Francis Su on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 2018-11-28.
  2. "Barbara Faires - MAA Secretary | Mathematical Association of America". www.maa.org. Retrieved 2018-11-28.
  3. Barbara Trader Faires at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. Vindicator, The. "J. DOUGLAS FAIRES". vindy.com. Archived from the original on 2019-04-20. Retrieved 2018-12-05.
  5. "Amazon.com: faires douglas barbara: Books". www.amazon.com. Retrieved 2018-12-05.


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