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I grew up on a family farm in rural North Dakota, where I graduated from Halliday High School in a class of nine students. (Yes, this was the local public high school.) Along the way, I played saxophone in the band and was a basketball statistician. I was also big into FFA, winning six individual state championships and two team titles. At one point, I could identify just about any tree that was hardy enough to grow in North Dakota. I spent the summer of 1998 on campus at North Dakota State University as part of the North Dakota Governor's School mathematics program. Two years later, as a National Merit Scholar and alumnus of the United States Senate Youth Program, I enrolled at NDSU as a Computer Science and Mathematics major. After spending summers in the mathematics Research Experience for Undergraduates program at Louisiana State University and the Director's Summer Program at the National Security Agency, I earned a B.S. in Mathematics with a minor in Computer Science in May 2004. I also completed the University Honors Program.

In August 2004, I began the mathematics Ph.D. program at the Georgia Institute of Technology as a VIGRE Trainee. My involvement on campus focused on the Graduate Student Government Association, Honor Advisory Council, and High School Mathematics Competition. Details of my involvement and honors can be found on my curriculum vitae. In May 2010, I graduated with my Ph.D. My dissertation, entitled Some Results on Linear Discrepancy for Partially Ordered Sets, was written under the supervision of William T. Trotter.

Working with Tom Trotter, I have developed a textbook for Georgia Tech's junior-level applied combinatorics course MATH 3012. The book is available under a CreativeCommons license, and source code is available as part of my interest in Open Educational Resources. I am also co-editor of the PreTeXt edition of Ken Bogart's Combinatorics through Guided Discovery, which is also an open source book available online. Both projects are endorsed by the American Institute of Mathematics' Open Textbook Initiative.

In September 2010, I moved to London to take up a Marshall Sherfield Fellowship. For my fellowship, conducted research in combinatorics with Graham R. Brightwell in the Department of Mathematics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. While at the LSE, I had the opportunity to travel to give talks or attend conferences in Haifa, Israel; Exeter, United Kingdom; Victoria, British Columbia, Canada; Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Budapest, Hungary; San Diego, California; and Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. I also spent a week visiting King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where I conducted workshops on teaching and learning for faculty from across the university. Much of my free time was spent playing or refereeing tag rugby for Try Tag Rugby. (Think flag football, only rugby.)

Fall 2012 brought me back to the Heartland, as I assumed a three-year appointment as a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. My stay in Lincoln was to be shorter than anticipated, however, as I moved to Lexington, Virginia, in the summer of 2013 to begin a position in the Department of Mathematics at Washington and Lee University. After five years in Lexington, I moved back to the Midwest as an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Morningside College.

When the Mathematics Genealogy Project moved to NDSU from Minnesota State University-Mankato in 2002, I became the Project's Technical Director. In this capacity, I was responsible for maintaining the website and server. Over time, I moved on to serve as Assistant Director and Interim Co-Managing Director. In February 2010, I was named to succeed founder Harry B. Coonce as the Project's Managing Director. I continue to lead the programming for the website, but have added ultimate responsibility for the Project to my portfolio. I oversee the graduate students who manage the data as well as the assistant director in charge of making the posters we sell to support the Project.

In my free time, I enjoy travelling (especially in business or first class on long-haul flights to exotic destinations, all paid for with miles and points), college football, international rugby, and baking. I bake a few pies every year, and I'm proud to say I've never bought pie crust in the store. I've also made croissants and puff pastry in addition to a variety of cakes, cookies, tarts, and candies. My other major hobby is photography. You can see a collection of my work online. My photographs have won two best in show awards, and one image was selected for a juried exhibition.

What has the columnist angry was the removal of several passages of progressive political text that went with the update to the recent changes of the math curriculum. I can see why that removal would anger some people with progressive political values.

Mathematics itself is not political, but it is always taught within a political and historical context. For example, I have math texts that make it seem that the only worthwhile math came from European men, while I have others that show mathematics has roots all over the world. I have math textbooks that mention 0 women, while other texts show the role women have played in mathematics and delve into why women had a hard time making more of a contribution.

Whatever context you want to frame a curriculum, I think that emphasizing politics and history with regards to teaching mathematics will not achieve some of the goals that progressive thinkers hope it will achieve. I think the new changes in the curriculum with regards to things such as streaming will help achieve those goals, as I wrote here.

Additionally, I think there are other things that can be done outside the curriculum that could help students that are disadvantaged when it comes to education in math. I am thinking of the work done by organizations like BlackGirlsCode. We could use more organizations like that who can provide specialized programs not just to help kids who are struggling with math, but to uplift kids that excel in math. Organizations that can support the next Maryam Mirzakhani, wherever she is. The kids who are struggling with math need more help than what the schools can provide: the same is true for kids that excel in math.

Lothar Hermann Redlin was born in the historic town of Reichenbach, Germany (now Dzierzoniw, Poland) on February 22, 1952. His family immigrated to Canada shortly after his birth, taking the infant Lothar with them to Nova Scotia, where Hermann Redlin (Lothar's father) worked as a lift bridge operator. Lothar's mother Gerda Redlin was a homemaker. The family soon moved to Thunder Bay, ON where Lothar's father started a mushroom growing business. Lothar later recalled his days in Thunder Bay in remarkable detail, even though he was only five- or six-years-old. When the family relocated to French Creek on Vancouver Island, his father was finally able to achieve his goal of working as a professional fisherman in the waters around the island. Lothar's father, a talented boat builder, built his own fishing boats, all made in his own unique style, eventually building the Samona, a 52-foot cement troller. Lothar helped with the boat-building and spent each summer throughout his school years fishing with his father on the Samona. Lothar spent the many hours on the boat thinking of different problems, which he later found out were mathematical problems. For instance, he was counting the number of different ways that certain objects on the boat could be arranged, and discovered formulas for computing these. Aa another example, he completely figured out how the LORAN system (the method used for navigation at the time) uses hyperbolas to locate the position of the boat off shore.

In tenth grade Lothar's knowledge of mathematics had advanced so much that his high school mathematics teacher said that he could no longer teach Lothar any new mathematics. So the teacher gave Lothar the calculus book that was being used at the University of Victoria at the time and let him spend the mathematics class periods working on his own. Lothar would then travel to the university to take the final exams. He received top scores on each exam. Lothar later attended the University of Victoria where he received a degree in mathematics. He was also interested in linguistics and took several linguistics courses. Lothar always prized his education at the University of Victoria and often commented on the excellent mathematics teachers he had at the university. He had great affection for the university and particularly the mathematics department. Lothar's interest in mathematics went far beyond his classes at school and his insights into problem solving were legendary. He took the Putnam mathematics competition exam while attending the University of Victoria and received an excellent score.

Upon graduation from the University of Victoria, Lothar received an NSERC grant for graduate study in mathematics at a university of his choice. He chose to study at McMaster University in Hamilton, ON where he received a PhD in mathematics in 1978. He was then awarded postdoctoral grants to do research at the University of Washington, and later at the University of Waterloo in Ontario. Lothar published several articles on his research in the fields of functional equations and topology. Lothar continued his mathematics career as a Lecturer at California State University, Long Beach, and then as a Professor of Mathematics at Penn State.

In 1990 Lothar began his very successful collaboration with James Stewart on writing mathematics textbooks. Lothar's clear understanding of mathematical concepts, his deep insights into how mathematics works, and his talent for mathematical exposition all worked together to help produce exceptional mathematics textbooks. The precalculus books that Lothar coauthored (with James Stewart and Saleem Watson) are the best selling textbooks of their kind in the United States and Canada. (The textbook Precalculus: Mathematics for Calculus has been translated into Spanish and is widely used in South and Central America.) Lothar was selected by the publishing company of the best-selling Stewart calculus textbooks to produce a new revision of the calculus text. Lothar was just beginning his work on this revision when his efforts were cut short by his untimely death on April 9, 2018. Lothar' s passing was a great loss to the author team who collaborated with him, but Lothar's legacy lives on in his brilliant explanations and special insights contained in the several mathematics textbooks that he coauthored.

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