John Feroe

John Feroe received his undergraduate degree from St. Olaf College in 1968, and his Ph.D. from the University of California at San Diego in 1974. His principal research interests are differential equations, dynamical systems, and applied mathematics. He also has interests in complex analysis, functional analysis, mathematical biology, and psychology.

Representative publications include:

• Successive approximations and the general uniqueness theorem, with J. Evans, Am. J. of Math., 96, 505-510 (1974)
• Temporal stability of solitary impulse solutions of a nerve equation, Biophys. J., 21, 103-110 (1978)
• A spectral radius theorem for matrix seminorms, Lin. Alg. Appl., 22, 97-103 (1978)
• Hilbert at Vassar: An undergraduate seminar, Am. Math. Monthly, 85, 699-672 (1978)
• Internal representation of pitch sequences in tonal music, with D. Deutsch, Psych. Review, 88, 503-522 (1981)
• Double impulse solutions in nerve axon equations, with J. Evans and N. Fenichel, SIAM J. Appl. Math., 42, 219-234 (1982)
• Existence of traveling wave trains in nerve axon equations, SIAM J. Appl. Math., 46, 1079-1097 (1986)
• Single-variable Calculus with Discrete Mathematics (textbook), with C. Steinhorn, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich (1991)
• Homoclinic orbits in a parametrized saddle-focus system, Physica D, 62, 254-262 (1993).

John Feroe is currently serving as Assistant to the President

Office: President's Office, Main Building
Phone: (845) 437-7200
e-Mail: feroe@vassar.edu