MOSS LANDING, CA, December 07, 2021 /24-7PressRelease/ -- David Styer has been included in Marquis Who's Who. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Dr. Styer initially obtained a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics and a Master of Arts in mathematics from the Pennsylvania State University. He concluded his education with a Doctor of Philosophy in mathematics from the University of Maryland. He began his academic career as an instructor with Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland. Dr. Styer subsequently excelled as a professor of mathematical sciences with the University of Cincinnati from 1970 to 1999, at which point he was honored with the designation of professor emeritus.
Dr. Styer has also served his community as a volunteer docent and tour leader at the Fort Ord National Monument, a former United States Army post on Monterey Bay on the California coast that is now managed by the United States Bureau of Land Management as part of the National Conservation Lands. With his wife, Jane, he has dedicated more than 55 hours per week to the aforementioned monument for over 15 years, leading to numerous birding and wildflower trips, conducting a 28,000-acre monument plant inventory, producing a 150,000 record plant database, developing a Fort Ord plant list of over 1,000 species including locations and life cycles, compiling a comprehensive bird and butterfly species lists and mentoring many other Bureau of Land Management volunteers. For their stellar efforts in conservation, Dr. Styer and his wife were celebrated with the 2018 Making a Difference National Volunteer Lifetime Achievement Award by the United States Bureau of Land Management. Dr. Styer wrote "Flora of Fort Ord, Monterey County, California," a book published in 2019 by the California Native Plant Society.
Dr. Styer has been affiliated with the American Mathematical Society, the Mathematical Association of America, the North American Butterfly Association, the California Native Plant Society, the Wilson Ornithological Society and the American Ornithologist Union. In addition, he is a founding member of Oxbow Inc. and published a book entitled "Birds of the Oxbow", with illustrations by William Zimmerman, in 1993. Dr. Styer attributes his success to his passion for his work.
Prior to tenth grade Styer had never performed well in any academic courses, and it was thought that he would become an artist, an area he was keen about. A sense of Styer's more artistic side may be seen if you Google "natural treasures of Fort Ord," a five-minute slide show of Styer's slides presented by the Army office at Fort Ord. However, he excelled in his plain geometry course at George School. He didn't realize it at the time, but this ability in mathematics was to lead to a PhD in mathematics. A lover of nature, he became an avid birder at 11 years of age. In the following years, Dr. Styer and Professor Edgar T. Wherry, who taught botany at the University of Pennsylvania, would make weekly Sunday trips from early morning until dark to study various plants.
Dr. Styer considers his main career research to have been publishing articles on geometric function theory, in addition to publishing papers on biological mathematics. For example he also aided in the publication of an article about two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. K. E. Walton and Eric Gruenstein were unable to publish their work until I proved that their results were statistically significant. Late in his mathematical career Styer enjoyed working with electrical engineer Phil Pace. Their work was in signal processing. Dr. Styer provided mathematical proof that what Pace called the Optimal Symmetric Number System was, indeed, optimal in terms of conveying as much information as possible. However, the system was delicate, and Dr. Styer introduced what they called a Robust Symmetric Number System.
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