LARRY J. STEPHENS is currently Professor of Mathematics at UNO, holds
the James Earl Professorship, and has been on the faculty since 1974. He
received his bachelor’s degree from Memphis State University in
Mathematics, his master’s degree from the University of Arizona in
Mathematics, and his Ph.D. degree from Oklahoma State University in
Statistics. He has over 25 years of experience teaching Mathematics and
Statistics.
He has taught at the University of Arizona, Christian Brothers College, Gonzaga University, Oklahoma State University, the University of Nebraska at Kearney, and the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He has worked for NASA, Livermore Radiation Laboratory, and Los Alamos Laboratory. Dr. Stephens consulted with and conducted Statistics seminars for the engineering group at 3M, Valley, Nebraska plant from 1989 until 1998. He has published many computerized test banks to accompany elementary Statistics texts.
Professor Stephens has over 40 publications in professional journals. He is the author of Schaum’s Outline of Beginning Statistics, Algebra for the Utterly Confused, and co-author with Murray Spiegel of Schaum’s Outline of Statistics. He has been director of the Masters of Arts for Teachers of Mathematics program since 1985 and has joint publications with many of the graduates of this program.