Thomas William Hungerford (born 1936) is an American mathematician who works in algebra and mathematics education. He is the author or coauthor of several widely used and widely cited textbooks covering high-school to graduate-level mathematics. From 1963 until 1980 he taught at the University of Washington

University of Washington

University of Washington is a public research university, founded in 1861 in Seattle, Washington, United States. The UW is the largest university in the Northwest and the oldest public university on the West Coast. The university has three campuses, with its largest campus in the University...

 and then at Cleveland State University

Cleveland State University

Cleveland State University is a public university located in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. It was established in 1964 when the state of Ohio assumed control of Fenn College, and it absorbed the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law in 1969...

 until 2003. Since 2003 he has been at Saint Louis University

Saint Louis University

Saint Louis University is a private, co-educational Jesuit university located in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Founded in 1818 by the Most Reverend Louis Guillaume Valentin Dubourg SLU is the oldest university west of the Mississippi River. It is one of 28 member institutions of the...

. Hungerford has a special interest in promoting the use of technology to teach mathematics.

Hungerford did his undergraduate work at the College of the Holy Cross and got his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago

University of Chicago

The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...

 in 1963 (advisor: Saunders Mac Lane

Saunders Mac Lane

Saunders Mac Lane was an American mathematician who cofounded category theory with Samuel Eilenberg.-Career:...

).

Undergraduate

• 1997 Abstract Algebra: An Introduction, 2nd Edition. Cengage. ISBN 0030105595
• 2005 Contemporary College Algebra and Trigonometry, 2nd Edition. Cengage. ISBN 0534466656
• 2005 Contemporary College Algebra, 2nd Edition. Cengage. ISBN 0534466567
• 2006 Contemporary Trigonometry. Cengage. ISBN 0534466389
• 2009 Contemporary Precalculus, 5th Edition (with Douglas J. Shaw). Cengage. ISBN 0495554413
• 2011 Mathematics with Applications, 10th Edition (with Margaret L. Lial and John P. Holcomb, Jr). Pearson. ISBN 0321646320
• 2011 Finite Mathematics with Applications, 10th Edition (with Margaret L. Lial and John P. Holcomb, Jr). Pearson. ISBN 0321645545

High School

• 2002 Precalculus: A Graphing Approach (with Irene Jovell and Betty Mayberry). Holt, Rinehart & Winston. ISBN 0030565111

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