Contact Information

• Phone/Voice Mail: (616) 331-2443
• email: fishbacp@gvsu.edu
• Office: 2337 MAK
• Department Phone: (616) 331-2040
• Department Fax: (616) 331-3120
• Mailing address: Department of Mathematics, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI 49401

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Hiking up Mt. Moosilauke, NH on the Appalachian Trail

Professor, Department of Mathematics

• Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, 1992

• A.B. Hamilton College, 1985

I came to Grand Valley State University in the Fall of 1993, received tenure in 1999, and was promoted to Full Professor in 2006.  I've had the opportunity to teach a wide variety different courses, including college algebra, calculus, proof writing, linear algebra, differential equations, operations research, vector calculus, modern algebra, real analysis, and complex analysis. In the Fall of 2009, I received the GVSU Alumni Association's Outstanding Educator Award.

Although my graduate training was in the field of Fourier analysis, my research since coming to GVSU has primarily involved collaborating with students on problems in analysis and discrete dynamical systems. The last four years I spent writing a text book for our operations course. The book, entitled Linear and Nonlinear Programming with Maple: An Interactive, Applications-Based Approach, was published by Chapman & Hall / CRC Press in December of 2009.

Student-related activities have always been of interest to me. I am involved with  Pi Mu Epsilon (PME), the national mathematics honor society, both as the GVSU chapter advisor and also as a member of the national PME council.

Away from GVSU, I enjoy camping, cross-country skiing, bicycling, and traditional, Greenland-style sea kayaking. I hold the British Canoe Union 4- Sea Kayaking Skill Award and have paddled extensively on the Great Lakes.

Winter Paddling on Lake Michigan.