Don Davis's Home Page

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My vita
ALGTOP-L, algebraic topology listserv, which I moderate.
Homology, Homotopy, and Applications, a journal for which I serve as Executive Editor
My list of publications. Papers subsequent to 1993 are available there for inspection.
Reviews of my papers
List of my Ph.D. students.
Description of research interests
Encyclopedia article about topology, that I wrote
Table of immersions and embeddings of real projective spaces
Information about my book, The Nature and Power of Mathematics, first published by Princeton University Press and now by Dover Publishing beginning Dec 2004.
Information about American Regions Math League team that I coach. My Lehigh Valley Fire team won the National Championship in 2005! They finished second in 2007, and third in 2006.
High school math contest, which I conduct each March.
Links

Photo taken in Nov 2005 when I received award from Pa Council of Teachers of Mathematics for Outstanding Contribution to Mathematics Education.

Information about my Freshman Seminar, Ultramarathon Running, Fall semester 1996. This includes many of my students' papers, and an article about the course which appeared in the March 1997 issue of Ultrarunning magazine.
Kidney Failure and Ultramarathoning, an article which appeared in the March 1995 issue of Ultrarunning magazine.
A list of the races of at least 26.2 miles that I have completed. Results of my most recent race.
Association of Road Running Statisticians' list of longest spans between first and last ultramarathon wins (internationally). I am fifth.
"All-time" fastest Americans at 50 miles. Compiled by Nick Marshall, from nearly complete race records since 1968, when 50-mile races began to be held in the US. Look for me around 450.
Historical records of the NYRRC Metropolitan 50 Mile Race, the second oldest ultramarathon in the US. We have here complete results of all 35 runnings of this race since 1971, and compilations of top performers in various categories.
Age group records for Pennsylvania residents at 50 km, 50 miles, 100 km, 100 miles, and 24 hours.
A list of my miles run each year. I reached a lifetime total of 80,000 miles on 1/19/08. This is more than three times around the earth. It equals an average of 48 miles per week for 32 years.
Links

UltraRunning magazine site
Multiday running website, which includes an article by Kelly Collins from my 1996 freshman seminar, and also the article about Yiannis Kouros written by Stephanie Nelson in that seminar.

Photo with Jean and our grandson Kenny, May 2007.