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RAYMOND N. SHEKOURY 300 South First Street, Apartment 9 El Cajon California 92019 Phone: (619) 966 9262 Cellular: (309) 310 6867 E-mail: rshekoury@mac.com Updated on July 19. 2017
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Ph.D. in Mathematics: University of Iowa, Iowa City, 1963 Title of dissertation:
The L-System and Postnikov Invariants of a CW Complex. 0 0 0
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M. Sc. in Mathematics: University of Iowa, Iowa City, 1959 B.Sc. in Mathematics; University of Baghdad 1957 B.Sc. in Civil Engineering; University of Baghdad 1953 Algebraic Topology General Topology Category Theory Dynamical Systems Fractals Chaos Other Branches of Mathematics. Theory of Relativity Mathematical Education. History and Philosophy of Mathematics & Physics
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RESEARCH ARTICLES
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Constructions in the Hyperbolic Planes. (With Dr. M. W. Al-Dhahir), Proceedings of the Iraqi Scientific Societies. Vol., 2, 1965 pp., 1 -6.
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Some Remarks on Postnikov Complexes (With Dr. H. Uehara), Tohoku Mathematics Journal, Vol. 15, No., pp. 299-314 Cohomology of a Certain Postnikov System. Proceedings of the Second Congress of the University of Baghdad. 1971, pp. 299-314 An Objective Theory of General Relativity, Proceedings of the Second Congress of the University of Baghdad, 1971, pp. 501-503 On Quasi-trivilizable Fibrations. Proceedings of the journal of the Lebanese Academy of Science, 1973. Normal forms of Vector Fields with Elliptic Singularities, 1988 (With Dr.. Taha & K. Ferhan ). Image Processing, (with Aida Ovanessian), the Iraqi Journal of Science in 1994.
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Singularwise Fractalization of Gray Scaled Images (with Aida Ovanessian), submitted for publication, 1999
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Modem Mathematics (in English): 3 Volumes (co-author), for the 10 . 11th. and 12 grades; published by UNESCO. Modern Mathematics (in Arabic); 3 Volumes (co-author). Published By the Education Ministry of Iraq. Editor of English -Arabic-French Unified Dictionary of Mathematical terms, Published by the Iraqi Academy Press in 1979. Mathematics for high schools (in Arabic). 4 Volumes (co-author),published by ALESCO 1994 Mesopotamians: Pioneers of Mathematics (in English) 2005 Under Publication
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Two books on geometry for the 8 and 9 grades. Axiomatic Method to be used as a text for the second University year for Mathematics students. Mesopotamians: Pioneers of Mathematics My Intellectual Awakenings
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. Modem Mathematics it Nature Meaning and Content: a 50 page article in Arabic published in an abbreviated from in the Bulletin of the Iraqi Mathematics, and Physics Society, 1973, pp. 52-58.
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The Interaction of Mathematics and Physics: An article in Arabic based on an invited speech to the first physics conference held in Basra in 1972.
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The Cultural Impact of Mathematics and Physics: an article in Arabic based on an invited address to the first conference of the Arab Physics and Mathematics Societies in 1973.
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Mathematics: How it should be taught to non-mathematicians: an article in English based on an invited talk in a conference held in Amman in 1976.
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. A simple Introduction to Homology Theory: a 50-page article published in Arabic in the Iraqi Bulletin of Mathematics and Physics in 1976.
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Review on Feynman’s book Character of the Physical Law, published in Arabic in the Bulletin of Mathematics and Physics.
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. Theory of Games: a 50 page mimeographed Lecture Notes.
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Demarcation between science and pseudoscience. A lecture given at January 20007 in at Chaldian Club in San Diego.
Positions Held Spring 2002 2000-2001 1996-1999 1983-1996
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Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Illinois State University of California at Fresno, California Hashemite University, Zarka. Jordan University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq
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Southern Illinois University, at Carbondale, Illinois Instructor in the Department of Mathematics, College of Science. University of Baghdad. Demonstrator in Mathematics at the College of Engineering Baghdad. Engineer in the Irrigation Department, Baghdad.
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Member of the American Mathematical Society (since 1961). Member of the Iraqi Physics and Mathematics Society. From 1968 to 1980 Vice-president of the Iraqi Physics and Mathematics Society. Member of every committee on the curricula of mathematics in the College of Science-University of Baghdad since 1963. Member of the Iraqi inter-university curricula committee. Member and ex-chairman of the Iraqi committee for modernizing mathematics teaching. Member of the Inter-Arab committee for modern Mathematics. Member of the Editorial Board of the Bulletin of Mathematics and Physics, a Journal for general reader, published in Arabic. Editor of the Bulletin of Iraqi Mathematics and Physics Society. Member of the advisory board for the Journal Life and Science Member of the Arabization of the teaching language of science committee. Member of the Editorial Board of the Iraqi Journal of Science (from 1983 to 1986 and from 1991 to 1994). Member of the mathematical branch of the Iraqi Scientific Academy since 1995.
SUPERVISION OVER Ph.D. AND MSc DEGREE THESES
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Far Rings and Fractal Images Singularwise Iterated Function System Theory and Its impact on Fractalization of Gray-scaled Images.
Rahma Abdul-Kader Aida Ovanessian
Jun 198 Aug 1996
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On Fractal Dimension On Constructive Shadowing Theorem Nonlinear Physics- Chaos, Order and Nonlinearity. Bifurcation Theory and Buckling of Circular Plates. Some Results in Dynamical Systems: The Theorem and Ordering of Sarkovski
Waleed Sa’eed Ban Ja’afer Al-tai Sa’ad Ibrahim Iman Harb fftichar M. AI-Shara
Aug 1996 Jul 1996 Jan 1995 Sep 1994 Nov 1994
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On the Dimension of Q-Fractals. On Strange Attractors About a New Exact Sequence. Categorizing Shape Theory. On Optimal Stopping Time. Digital Image Processing. A Procedure of Constructing Liapunov Functions to Study Dynamical Systems.
Zaid Usmat Shawkat Wiam M. Al-Timiml Dhia Ghazi Abdul Adheem Mowatt Zaki S. Tawflk Aida A. Ovanessian Issarn H. Kadooru
Jul 1994 Feb 1994 Mar 1992 Feb 1992 Feb 1989 Oct 1988 Oct 1986
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On Singularities of Vector Fields on the Plane A Treatment of Phenomena of Instability. Ecological Applications in Catastrophe Theory. On Applications in Catastrophe Theory
Abdul-Khudhir Ferhan Mohammed Nokhas Saad N. Al-Azzawi Narjis A. J. Dawood
Jun 1986 Feb 1986 Aug 1985 May 1985
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On Preparation Theorem. A Presentation of the Second Homotopy Groups of Three-Manifolds
Ahmed A. R. AI-Sald Hasan M. Mohammed
Oct. 1984 Jun 1980
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On Bounds of Positive Integral Solutions Expectation of Reciprocal and Square Root a Random Variable
Addulmuhsin J. Almaali Fadhil A. Al-Baidhani
Oct. 1979 Sep 1979
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Some Results in Frame Theory Homological Equivalence of Pathwise Connected Spaces with Eilenberg-Maclane Spaces of Type One.
Haibat K. M. All Khaffer H. Bussi
Dec 1978 Dec 1978
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Extension of Homeomorphisms.
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On Dynamical Systems. On Multiplications on Spheres. On Triples and Tripleable Functors. On Free Topological Groups. On Center of an object. On Coreflective Subcategories. On Residual Singular and E-residual Homology Theory. Functorial Relationships Between Categories of Topological Spaces and the Category of Banach Spaces Some Topologies Making a Given Function Continuous On the Generalized Shrinkability Condition. A Categorical Treatment of Some Portions of Algebraic Topology
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Treatment of Topology as a Category of Categories. A Generalization of Metric Spaces. Quasi-Projective Planes. Some Results about Cogroups. Abstract Cover Functor On Certain Types of Metric spaces On proximity spaces Free Objects in Category Theory On certain types of Metric Spaces.
Adeeb K Moslem
Nov. 1976
Khaleel Ishmael. Taha Al-Dosary Oct. 1976 Yunis J. Yaseen Jun. 1976 Radhi Ibraheem. All May 1976 Jasim A. Salih Apr. 1976 Mohammed J. Jaffer Jun. 1975 Fatima A. Hussain Apr. 1975 Sabah N. Al-Zibaree Feb. 1975 Amel A. Al-Attar
Feb. 1974
Panveen A. Hummadl
Jun I972
Sabah A. All Jalal A. Kassab
Jun. 1972 Jun. 1972
Romeo F. Jaberroo Muneer K. Al-Ani Amal S. AI-Mukhtar Ibtisam H. KamaL AI-Deen Mohammed A. Al-Janabi Sabah A. Jasim Nadir J. Mary Sabbah A. Ghullam Ata T. Al-Anni
Jun. 1972 Jun. 1971 Feb. 1971 Jun. 1970 Feb. 1970 Feb.1970 Oct 1967 Aug 1967 Jul. 1967
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