EJB's biography
The Beginnings
Born: exactly 10 years after Hillary C.
(it should be obvious that the picture is how
I'd like to look, not how I
do look).
Interests:
- high explosives and rockets
- The Beatles
- photography
- electronics
Middle Age
High School: Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace (Gymnasium)
no. XIV in Warsaw, Poland. They even have a Web page these days! And
here is an unofficial one, maintained by
me and my friends.
Interests:
- photography
- women
- Simula-67 programming
- skiing
- Paul Desmond
Degree: MSc, Algebra (Theory of Radicals) from
the Department of Mathematics
at the Warsaw University (they said: "we want to make a
mathematician out of you!", and I said: "aha, no way!" Thanks to Jan
Krempa, Andrzej Birkholc, Ryszard Engelking, Barbara Terlikowska,
Edmund Puczylowski, many others)
First touched the Net: 1983
Married: Ewa, M.D.
Degree: PhD, Mathematics (Lie Superalgebras) from
the Department of Mathematics
at UC San Diego (again, they said: "we want to...", and I said "over
my dead body!" Thanks to Lance Small, Helmut Rohrl, Gunnar Carlsson, Tom
Enright, many others; but especially I.N. Herstein, whether he has Web
access now or not)
Work:
- taught a bunch of courses at UCLA and
Illinois State University
- translated math articles and books from Russian
- developed and implemented a departmental computer network when it
wasn't even fashionable yet
- wasted a lot of time in useless committees
The Present
Interests:
- photography
- jazz
- electronics
- backyard astronomy
- C++ programming
- radio-controlled airplanes
- impact of computers on society
- American political system
- "why the heck would anyone use Microsoft products?"
Hates:
- Beavis & Butthead
- political correctness
- Henry Waxman
- people who "top post" and send HTML mail
- most New Age "music"
- Kenny G.
- weak coffee
- seafood
- DOS and Windows
Work: system manager for the NIU Math Department (I also teach
once in a while)
Back to my home page
If you want to send me hate mail, you can do it here:
behr@math.niu.edu
And yes, this is really the end, my friend.