Published on April 12, 2011  

Senior math major Zac Epperson--mentored by Dr. Bruce Atkinson--was honored with the Walt and Susan Patterson Award at  at the Southeastern Section annual meeting of the Mathematical Association of America April 1. The award recognized the paper Epperson presented at the conference--Analytic Continuation of Factorial-Like Products,  one of 33 student presentations.

 
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