University of Richmond

Dr. Della Fenster

Professor of Mathematics
204 Jepson Hall
Office: (804) 287-6567

http://www.mathcs.richmond.edu/~dfenster

Teaching:
Linear Algebra
Calculus
Vienna Circles (a Quest course)

Research:
Algebra
History of Mathematics
Number Theory

Education:
Ph.D., University of Virginia

Selected Publications:

Fenster, D.D., & Schwermer, J. (2005) A delicate collaboration: Adrian Albert and Helmut Hasse and the principal theorem in division algebras in the early 1930's. Archive for History of Exact Sciences, v.59, no., 4, 349-379.

Fenster, D.D. (2003) Funds for mathematics: Carnegie Institution of Washington support for mathematics from 1902 to 1921. Historia Mathematica, v.30.

Fenster, D.D. (1999) Leonard Eugene Dickson (1874-1954): An American legacy in mathematics. Mathematical Intelligencer, v.21.