Donald Davis is an American mathematician and Professor of Mathematics at Lehigh University. He is known for contributions to algebraic topology, immersions of real projective spaces, and topological complexity.

Davis studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University, and received his Ph.D. from Stanford in 1972, under the supervision of R. James Milgram. He taught at Lehigh University for fifty years faculty.^{[1] [2]}

Davis is the founder and coach of the Lehigh Valley American Regions Math League team, one of the best known high school mathematics teams in the nation. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.^[3]

Donald Davis is also an avid and accomplished ultrarunner. ^[4]

Mathematical work

Coaching

Ultrarunning

Family History

Leaf Piles

Bottle Collections

Publications

Textbooks

• The Nature and Power of Mathematics Dover Publications 2004. ISBN 0-486-43896-1

Notable articles

• Donald Davis. The antiautomorphism of the Steenrod algebra. Proc Amer Math Soc, 44 (1974) 235-236
• Donald Davis, Tony Bahri, Martin Bendersky, and Peter B. Gilkey, The complex bordism of groups with periodic cohomology. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. (316) (1989) 673-688.

Notes

External links

• Donald M. Davis at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• Lehigh University home page