I orignally trained to be a chemical engineer but then received my PhD in mathematics. My area o specialty is applied mathematics and informal geometry. I have written two books on the latter subject area.

Ph.D. ; Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University ; ; 1974

M.A. ; Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University ; ; 1968

M.S. ; Iowa State University ; ; 1960

B.S. ; Polytechnic University ; Chemical Engineering ; 1958

http://www-ec.njit.edu/~kappraff

Discrete mathematics, mathematics of design, and calculus applied to architecture.

Mathematics of design, application of mathematics to the coding of DNA.

Jay M. Kappraff. ". Ancient Harmonic Law, in Symmetry: Culture and Science, ed. M. Petitjean, Vol. 21, N0s. 1-3 (2010)." 4.. Ancient Harmonic Law, in Symmetry: Culture and Science, , vol. 21 , no. 1-3 .

Jay M. Kappraff. 2009. "Generalized Genomic Matrices, Silver Means, and Pythagrean Triples." FORMA , vol. 24 , pp. 1-8.

Jay M. Kappraff. 2009. "Generalized Genomic Matrices, Silver Means, and Pythagorean Triples, Forma, Vol. 24, pp 1-8, (2009) ." FORMA , vol. 24 , no. 2009 , pp. pp 1-8.

Jay M. Kappraff. "A Participatory Approach to Modern Geometry." 256 pp. World Scientific, 2014. ISBN 978-9814556705.

Jay M. Kappraff. "A Participatory Approach to Modern Geometry." 256 pp. World Scientific, 2014. ISBN 978-9814556705.

Jay M. Kappraff. "The Proportions of the Parthenon: A work of musically inspired architecture, art and mathematics." Oleg Bodnar, 2008.