UNIVERSITY ADDRESS:	316 St John's College, 92 Dysart Road, Winnipeg R3T 2M5 Canada
	thomas@cc.umanitoba.ca
	tel: (204) 474-8515
	fax: (204) 474-7611

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

1998--2011 Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba

1986--2011 Fellow, St John's College

1996--99 Adjunct Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Manitoba

1985--98 Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Manitoba

1978--85 Associate Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Manitoba

1972-1978 Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba

1970--1972 Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba

1968--70 Mathematics Lecturer, School of Natural Sciences, University of Zambia

1965--66 Lecturer, Department of Mathematics, University of Waterloo

AWARDS/HONOURS

2006 Honorable mention (i.e.,} third place) for Award for Special Issue, Council of Editors of Learned Journals

1997 Runner-up (i.e.,} second place) for Phoenix Award for significant editorial achievement, Council of Editors of Learned Journals

1991 Designation as 'Chartered Mathematician' in the United Kingdom

1990 Election to Fellowship, Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications

1980 Election to Fellowship, Institute of Mathematics and its Applications

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS

My interests lie in the application of descriptions to the world. In order to study this activity, it has always seemed to me essential to have done it. Therefore I did classical applied mathematics, applying differential geometry to continuum mechanics in collaboration with H. Cohen of my department, who has a long-standing research programme in transient waves in elastic rods and shells. I studied linear elastic waves in shells [b 16, 18, 25, 29, 35, c 11, 12] and situations that are non-linear geometrically or materially [b 40, 42, 46]. My specifically mathematical interest is geometrical, and that makes a contribution to the above study [b 28]. I also pursue this interest in other areas [b 4--7, 12, 15, 34], recently returning to the subject of [b 15 and 34] with [b 53 and 54] and current work. On my own, I have come also to concern myself with certain aspects of the philosophy of mathematics [a 13, b 21, 27, 45, 48, 49, 51, 52, c 14, 16--20], a subject that I believe needs to be looked at historically [c 10]. To this end, I have translated from its original Greek into English one of the first four recognizably applied-mathematical texts, the Phaenomena of Euclid [a 10, 14, b 36, c 15, d 4]; this work was done in collaboration with J.L. Berggren of Simon Fraser University. I am now at work on another translation. Even more pervasive as description than mathematics is natural language, and I have studied its use both on my own [b 31, 50, c 13] and in collaboration with the late J.A. Romeyn of the Faculty of Medicine, who was interested in how persons--particularly in psychotherapy--describe and understand their personal situations [two joint unpublished manuscripts].


PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

(a) MEMBERSHIPS

Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (U.K.)
Foundation fellow of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications
Founding member of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics
Member of the Canadian Mathematical Society
Member of the American Mathematical Society
Member of the Mathematical Association of America
Member of the Association for Symbolic Logics
Member of Council of Editors of Learned Journals

(b) ACTIVITIES

Editor, philosophical journal (Philosophia Mathematica, Series III) of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics, 1992--
Treasurer, Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics, 1999-2002
Past-president, Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics, 1998-2000
President, Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics, 1996-1997
Member of Executive Council, Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics, 1993-96, 1989-91

DUTIES OUTSIDE UNIVERSITY AND PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Editorial Board, Utilitas Mathematica (1971-)
Parish Council, Parish of St George, Crescentwood, Winnipeg (2004-5)
Board on Canons and Rules of Order, Anglican Diocese of Rupert's Land (1991-2010, 2011-)
Council, Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences (1994-98)

Publications