Edward W. Packel

Edward W. Packel was born on July 23, 1941 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His parents were Israel Packel (1907–1987, a lawyer, jurist and attorney general of Pennsylvania) and Reba Wesler Packel (1909–1995), who had three sons and no daughters. In 1959 Edward Packel matriculated at Amherst College and graduated there in 1963 with a B.A. in mathematics. At Amherst, he played soccer.{{cite news|title=Runner, 60, takes setting record in stride|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|date=August 24, 2001|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2001/08/24/runner-60-takes-setting-record-in-stride/}}

In autumn 1963 he became a graduate student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), where he graduated in 1967 with a Ph.D. in mathematics. His Ph.D. thesis Some Results on (C₀) Semigroups and the Cauchy Problem was supervised by Gilbert Strang .{{MathGenealogy|id=27169|name=Edward Wesler Packel}}

From 1967 to 1971 Packel was an assistant professor of mathematics at Reed College. As a mathematician on the staff of the Chicago metropolitan area's Lake Forest College, he was an assistant professor from 1971 to 1975, an associate professor from 1975 to 1982, and a full professor from 1982 until his retirement as professor emeritus in 2013. At Lake Forest College, he was director of the computer center from 1972 to 1973 and chair of the department of mathematics and computer science department from 1986 to 1996. At Columbia University he held a part-time appointment as a senior lecturer in computer science from 1983 to 1985. He is the author or co-author of several books and more than 35 refereed articles.{{cite web|title=Vita, Edward Wesler Packel|website=Lake Forest College|date=January 2011|url=http://math.lfc.edu/~packel/Vita2011.htm}}

Packel was a visiting associate at California Institute of Technology (Caltech) for the academic year 1977–1978 and again in spring 1980. He held appointments a visiting professor for the academic year 1989–1990 at Berkeley's Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), for the academic year 1996–1997 at Australia's University of Sydney, and in autumn 2003 at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California. As a consultant, he has taught courses in Mathematica for Wolfram Research, conducted workshops for the Rocky Mountain Mathematics Consortium on consulting for business, and worked on various consultations related to topics related to gambling. His consulting activities related to gambling include probability calculations and computer simulations for new games involving chance, aspects of slot machine developments, and project management for machines that play poker against people.

In May 1968, Edward Packel married Doreen Humphreys. They divorced in 1979 after becoming the parents of three daughters, Amanda, Laura, and Lisa. Laura Packel became an epidemiologist and expert in family planning and reproductive health.{{cite web|title=Laura Packel|website=UCB-USCF Center for Global Health Delivery, Diplomacy & Economics, UC Berkeley-UC San Francisco|url=https://cghdde.berkeley.edu/people/laura-packel}} In July 1980 Edward Packel married Kathryn Helen Dohrmann, whose father was a Lutheran pastor.{{cite web|title=In Memory of Reinhold Dohrmann (1914 - 2004)|website=Roland Funeral Service. Atlantic, Cass County, Iowa|url=https://rolandfuneralservice.frontrunnerpro.com/book-of-memories/963840/dohrmann-reinhold/obituary.php}} There is a son Adrian from Edward Packel's second marriage. At Lake Forest College, Kathryn Dohrmann is an assistant professor of psychology, emerita.{{cite web|title=Kathryn Dohrmann, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Emerita|website=Psychology, Lake Forest College|url=https://www.lakeforest.edu/academics/faculty/dohrmann/}}

Edward Packel helped to establish the Lake Forest/Lake Bluff Running Club, where he and his wife Kathryn participated together in running. In 2001, Edward set a new record time in the mile run for Illinois runners in his age group. He also enjoys golf — in August 2005 he won $180 at the Lake County Senior Invitational at Lake Bluff Golf Club.

• {{cite journal|doi=10.1080/00029890.1974.11993680 |title=Hilbert Space Operators and Quantum Mechanics |date=1974 |last1=Packel |first1=E. W. |journal=The American Mathematical Monthly |volume=81 |issue=8 |pages=863–873 }}
• {{cite journal|doi=10.1007/BF01753239 |title=A new index of power for simple n-person games |date=1978 |last1=Deegan |first1=J. |last2=Packel |first2=E. W. |journal=International Journal of Game Theory |volume=7 |issue=2 |pages=113–123 |s2cid=123081028 }}
• {{cite journal|doi=10.1007/BF00140846 |title=An axiomated family of power indices for simple n-person games |date=1980 |last1=Packel |first1=Edward W. |last2=Deegan |first2=John |journal=Public Choice |volume=35 |issue=2 |pages=229–239 }}
• {{cite journal|doi=10.1007/BF01283881 |title=Power, luck and the right index |date=1983 |last1=Holler |first1=Manfred J. |last2=Packel |first2=Edward W. |journal=Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie |volume=43 |pages=21–29 |s2cid=153499901 }}
• {{cite book|doi=10.1007/978-1-4612-5430-0_10 |chapter=To the (Minimal Winning) Victors Go the (Equally Divided) Spoils: A New Power Index for Simple n-Person Games |title=Political and Related Models |date=1983 |last1=Deegan |first1=John |last2=Packel |first2=Edward W. |pages=239–255 |isbn=978-1-4612-5432-4 }} 1983
• {{cite journal|doi=10.1007/BF00297059 |title=Limiting distributions for continuous state Markov voting models |date=1984 |last1=Ferejohn |first1=J. A. |last2=McKelvey |first2=R. D. |last3=Packel |first3=E. W. |journal=Social Choice and Welfare |volume=1 |pages=45–67 |s2cid=85554456 |url=https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20171004-165602546 }}
• {{cite journal|doi=10.1038/328029a0 |title=Information-based complexity |date=1987 |last1=Packel |first1=Edward W. |last2=Traub |first2=Joseph F. |author-link2=Joseph F. Traub |journal=Nature |volume=328 |issue=6125 |pages=29–33 |bibcode=1987Natur.328...29P |s2cid=4308619 }}
• {{cite journal|doi=10.1090/S0273-0979-1987-15511-X |title=Recent developments in information-based complexity |date=1987 |last1=Packel |first1=Edward W. |last2=Woźniakowski |first2=Henryk |journal=Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society |volume=17 |pages=9–36 |doi-access=free }}
• {{cite journal|doi=10.1137/1030091 |title=Do Linear Problems Have Linear Optimal Algorithms? |date=1988 |last1=Packel |first1=Edward W. |journal=SIAM Review |volume=30 |issue=3 |pages=388–403 }}
• {{cite journal|author=Packel, Edward W.|author2=Traub, Joseph F.|author3=Woźniakowski, Henryk|title=Measures of uncertainty and information in computation|journal=Information Sciences|volume=65|issue=3|year=1992|pages=253–273|doi=10.1016/0020-0255(92)90123-P |url=https://www.academia.edu/49234272}}
• {{cite journal|doi=10.1080/07468342.2004.11922095 |title=Projectile Motion with Resistance and the Lambert W Function |date=2004 |last1=Packel |first1=Edward W. |last2=Yuen |first2=David S. |journal=The College Mathematics Journal |volume=35 |issue=5 |pages=337–350 |s2cid=15207005 }}

• {{cite book|author=Packel, Edward W.|title=Functional analysis: a short course|location=New York|publisher=Intext Educational Publishers|year=1974}} {{cite book|title=1980 edition|location=Huntington, New York|publisher=R. E. Krieger Publishing Company|isbn=0898740193|lccn=79021888}}
• {{cite book|author=Packel, Edward W.|title=Mathematics of games and gambling|location=Washington, D.C.|publisher=Mathematical Association of America|year=1981|isbn=088385628X|lccn=80085037}}
• {{cite book|title=2006 2nd edition|isbn=9780883856468|lccn=2006926250}}
• {{cite book|title=2022 pbk reprint of 2006 edition|isbn=978-1-4704-6862-0|lccn=2006926250|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=faZaEAAAQBAJ |last1=Packel |first1=Edward |date=19 January 2022 |publisher=American Mathematical Society }}
• {{cite book|title=Learning by discovery: a lab manual for calculus|editor=Solow, Anita E.|location=Washington, D.C.|publisher=Mathematical Association of America (MAA)|series=MAA Notes Number 27|year=1993|lccn=92062279|isbn=0883850834}} Writing team: John B. Fink, Bonnie Gold, Robert A. Messer, and Edward W. Packel; xiii+165 pages; illustrated. [https://maa.org/sites/default/files/pdf/pubs/books/members/NTE27.pdf Book cover & title page at maa.org]
• {{cite book|title=Animating calculus : Mathematica notebooks for the laboratory|author=Packel, Ed|author2=Wagon, Stan|location=New York|publisher=W.H. Freeman|year=1994}} {{cite book|title=1997 edition|date=1997 |location=New York|publisher=TELOS|isbn=0387947485|lccn=96023164|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7KgrAAAAYAAJ}}
• {{cite book|author=Packel, Edward W.|title=Mathematica for mathematics teachers: notes from an introductory course|year=1996|publisher=Front Range Press|location=Breckenridge, Colorado|isbn=0963167847}}

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