Barbara Trader Faires facts for kids
Barbara Trader Faires, born in 1943, is an American mathematician. She taught math and held important leadership roles at Westminster College in Pennsylvania. She also served for 8 years as the Secretary of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA), a big group for mathematicians. In 2022, she received a special award called the Yueh-Gin Gung and Dr. Charles Y. Hu Award for her great work in mathematics. She is now retired and lives in Pulaski Township, Pennsylvania.
Her Journey in Math
Barbara Faires studied at East Carolina University, where she earned two degrees: one in math and one in business. She then went on to get her highest degree, a doctorate, from Kent State University in 1974. Her research was about advanced math topics.
Later, she also studied computer science at Carnegie Mellon University. This helped her learn more about how computers work with math. She even had a chance to teach for a short time at Westminster College in Oxford, UK.
Barbara Faires was married to another mathematician, J. Douglas Faires (1941-2012). He taught at Youngstown University in Youngstown, Ohio. Together, they wrote several textbooks about calculus. Calculus is a type of math used to study change. Their books helped many students learn this important subject.
