LEADER 03498nam 2200577 a 450 001 9910462833703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-61444-513-3 035 $a(CKB)2670000000310006 035 $a(EBL)3330344 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000788992 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11441485 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000788992 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10723269 035 $a(PQKB)10088109 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781614445135 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3330344 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3330344 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10722455 035 $a(OCoLC)939263602 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000310006 100 $a20120823d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aIn the dark on the sunny side$b[electronic resource] $ea memoir of an out-of-sight mathematician /$fLarry Baggett 210 $a[Washington, D.C.] $cMathematical Association$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (0 p.) 225 1 $aSpectrum series 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-88385-581-X 327 $acover ; copyright page ; title page; Contents; Prologue; Uncle Al's Truss ; A Quantum Moment ; Louis and the Problem of Sixty-Three; Sidebar: Counting Dominoes; A Cane Mutiny; Sidebar: Steps for Caning Chairs; Pinocchio Becomes a Real Boy; Aunt Mildred and the Circle of Fifths; Sidebar: The Comma of Pythagoras; Scarlet Ribbons ; Dauntless Courage; Sidebar: Definition of the Limit of a Sequence; The Age of Enlightenment; Sidebar: Mathematical Induction; Baggett v. Bullitt, and All That Jazz; Sidebar: Designing Chords; Sidebar: More from Pythagoras; Publish or Perish, My Best Work 327 $aThe Renaissance``So How'd That All Work Out for You?''; Author's Notes; Acknowledgments; Index 330 $aMisfortune struck one June day in 1944, when a five-year-old boy was forever blinded following an accident he suffered with a paring knife. Few people become internationally recognized research mathematicians and famously successful university professors of that erudite subject, and not surprisingly a minuscule number of those few are visually impaired. In the Dark on the Sunny Side tells the story of one such individual. Larry Baggett was main-streamed in school long before main-streaming was at all common. On almost every occasion he was the first blind person involved in whatever was going on - the first blind student enrolled in the Orlando Public School System, the first blind student admitted to Davidson College, and the first blind doctoral student in mathematics at the University of Washington. Besides describing the various successes and failures Baggett experienced living in the dark on the sunny side, he displays in this volume his love of math and music by interspersing short musings on both topics, such as discussing how to figure out how many dominoes are in a set, the intricacies of jazz chord progressions, and the mysterious Comma of Pythagoras. 410 0$aMAA spectrum. 606 $aMathematicians$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aBlind$zUnited States$vBiography 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMathematicians 615 0$aBlind 676 $a510.92 700 $aBaggett$b Lawrence W.$f1939-$066708 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910462833703321 996 $aIn the dark on the sunny side$91980700 997 $aUNINA