LEADER 03270nam 22005532 450 001 9910808197303321 005 20151002020704.0 010 $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(RPAM)17440079 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000310006 100 $a20120919d2012|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aIn the dark on the sunny side $ea memoir of an out-of-sight mathematician /$fLarry Baggett$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aWashington :$cMathematical Association of America,$d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (ix, 206 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aSpectrum series 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). 311 $a0-88385-581-X 327 $aUncle Al's truss -- A quantum moment -- Louis and the problem of sixty-three -- A cane mutiny -- Pinocchio becomes a real boy -- Aunt Mildred and the circle of fifths -- Scarlet ribbons -- Dauntless courage -- The age of enlightenment -- Baggett v. Bullitt, and all that jazz -- Publish or perish, my best work -- The renaissance -- "So how'd that all work out for you?" 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$vBiography 615 0$aMathematicians 615 0$aBlind 676 $a510.92 700 $aBaggett$b Lawrence W.$f1939-$066708 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910808197303321 996 $aIn the dark on the sunny side$94030574 997 $aUNINA