I really enjoyed my interview w/ Rudy Gordh and hope you enjoy listening to it on this podcast.

Mathematics, Professor of Mathematics

rgordh@guilford.edu

Univ Californa River, PHD

Guilford College, '66

Research Interests

• Continuum theory
• Ordered topological spaces

Courses Taught
All math courses at all levels, including:

• Mathematics for the Liberal Arts
• Foundations of Mathematics
• All levels of Calculus
• Numerical Analysis
• Geometry
• Algebraic Structures

Notable Works

• Charles A. Dana Scholarship, 1964-65
• Western Electric Fund Scholarship
• National Academy of Sciences Exchange Scientist, 1973-74
• “Monotone decompositions of irreducible Hausdorff continua,” Pacific Journal of Mathematics 36 (1971), 647-658.
• “Arc components of chainable Hausdorff continua” (with Sam B. Nadler, Jr.), General Topology and its Applications 3 (1973), 63-76.
• “The shape classification of torus-like and (n-sphere)-like continua” (with Carl Eberhart and John Mack), General Topology and its Applications 4 (1974), 85-94.
• “Characterizing local connectedness in inverse limits” (with S. Mardesic), Pacific Journal of Mathematics 58 (1975), 411-417.
• “Monotone retracts and some characterizations of dendrites” (with Lewis Lum), Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 59 (1976), 156-158.

Campus and Community Involvement

• Chair of Mathematics Department
• Clerk of the Faculty
• Chair of the Admissions Committee
• Chair of the Education Studies Committee
• Chair of the Faculty Affairs Committee
• Service on other campus committees