Lynn Arthur Steen

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
72 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Lynn Arthur Steen is a scholar working on Statistics and Probability, Education and Geometry and Topology. According to data from OpenAlex, Lynn Arthur Steen has authored 72 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Statistics and Probability, 8 papers in Education and 4 papers in Geometry and Topology. Recurrent topics in Lynn Arthur Steen's work include Statistics Education and Methodologies (6 papers), Mathematics Education and Teaching Techniques (6 papers) and History and Theory of Mathematics (4 papers). Lynn Arthur Steen is often cited by papers focused on Statistics Education and Methodologies (6 papers), Mathematics Education and Teaching Techniques (6 papers) and History and Theory of Mathematics (4 papers). Lynn Arthur Steen collaborates with scholars based in United States, Brazil and Denmark. Lynn Arthur Steen's co-authors include J. Arthur Seebach, Mary Ellen Rudin, Bernard Madison, Anna Sierpińska, Jeremy Kilpatrick, William H. Barker, Allan J. Rossman, Rebecca Walker, Scott R. Herriott and Zalman Usiskin and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of the American Statistical Association and Scientific American.

In The Last Decade

Lynn Arthur Steen

62 papers receiving 1.6k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Counterexamples in Topology.

1971 414 citations Lynn Arthur Steen, J. Arthur Seebach et al. American Mathematical Monthly profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lynn Arthur Steen United States	17	786	656	370	276	244	72	2.0k
Hans Freudenthal Netherlands	24	2.3k 2.9×	1.2k 1.8×	460 1.2×	128 0.5×	414 1.7×	110	4.0k
Ed Dubinsky United States	30	2.2k 2.8×	1.1k 1.7×	137 0.4×	81 0.3×	262 1.1×	93	3.0k
David M. Bressoud United States	27	619 0.8×	231 0.4×	351 0.9×	114 0.4×	174 0.7×	100	1.8k
Keith Devlin United States	21	256 0.3×	104 0.2×	533 1.4×	554 2.0×	289 1.2×	100	1.9k
David Tall United Kingdom	38	4.4k 5.6×	2.1k 3.2×	211 0.6×	110 0.4×	278 1.1×	153	5.4k
Gary Davis Australia	14	289 0.4×	210 0.3×	248 0.7×	147 0.5×	529 2.2×	40	1.3k
David Preiss United Kingdom	25	621 0.8×	208 0.3×	516 1.4×	617 2.2×	990 4.1×	146	2.8k
Derek Holton New Zealand	16	531 0.7×	137 0.2×	190 0.5×	472 1.7×	30 0.1×	83	1.4k
Dani Ben‐Zvi Israel	26	1.4k 1.8×	2.0k 3.1×	355 1.0×	13 0.0×	222 0.9×	93	3.0k
Shlomo Vinner Israel	12	2.1k 2.7×	1.1k 1.7×	53 0.1×	43 0.2×	55 0.2×	25	2.4k

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Steen, Lynn Arthur. (2016). Does Everybody Need to Study Algebra. 18(2). 208–13.

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Steen, Lynn Arthur. (2007). How Mathematics Counts.. Educational leadership. 65(3). 8–14. 13 indexed citations

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Steen, Lynn Arthur. (2007). Every Teacher Is a Teacher of Mathematics.. Principal leadership. 7(5). 16–20. 8 indexed citations

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Steen, Lynn Arthur, Steven R. Dunbar, Sheldon P. Gordon, et al.. (2006). A Fresh Start for Collegiate Mathematics. 18 indexed citations

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Steen, Lynn Arthur. (2002). Achieving Mathematical Proficiency for All: Moving beyond the Math Wars.. The College Board review.

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Steen, Lynn Arthur. (2001). Mathematics and Numeracy: Two Literacies, One Language. 32 indexed citations

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Steen, Lynn Arthur. (2000). Reading, Writing, and Numeracy.. Liberal education. 86(2). 26–37. 10 indexed citations

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Steen, Lynn Arthur. (1999). Numeracy: The New Literacy for a Data-Drenched Society.. Educational leadership. 57(2). 8–13. 83 indexed citations

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Steen, Lynn Arthur. (1991). Mathematics in the U.S. and the Soviet Union.. Educational leadership. 48(5). 26–27. 1 indexed citations

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Steen, Lynn Arthur. (1990). Making Math Matter.. Instructor. 99(8). 21–23. 1 indexed citations

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Steen, Lynn Arthur. (1989). Teaching Mathematics for Tomorrow's World.. Educational leadership. 7(1). 18–22. 10 indexed citations

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Steen, Lynn Arthur. (1989). Mathematics for a New Century.. The Australian mathematics teacher. 45(2). 19–23. 3 indexed citations

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Steen, Lynn Arthur. (1988). Out from Underachievement.. Issues in Science and Technology. 5(1). 88–93. 3 indexed citations

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Steen, Lynn Arthur. (1988). Calculus for a new century : a pump, not a filter, a national Colloquium, October 28-29, 1987. 1 indexed citations

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Steen, Lynn Arthur. (1988). Calculus for a New Century: A Pump, Not a Filter. Papers Presented at a Colloquium (Washington, D.C., October 28-29, 1987). MAA Notes Number 8.. 127(2). 135–46. 26 indexed citations

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Steen, Lynn Arthur. (1973). Highlights in the History of Spectral Theory. American Mathematical Monthly. 80(4). 359–381. 12 indexed citations

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Steen, Lynn Arthur. (1970). A Direct Proof that a Linearly Ordered Space is Hereditarily Collectionwise Normal. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 24(4). 727–727. 7 indexed citations

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Steen, Lynn Arthur. (1970). A direct proof that a linearly ordered space is hereditarily collectionwise normal. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 24(4). 727–728. 12 indexed citations

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Seebach, J. Arthur, et al.. (1970). What is a Sheaf?. American Mathematical Monthly. 77(7). 681–703. 5 indexed citations

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Steen, Lynn Arthur. (1966). On Uniform Approximation by Rational Functions. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 17(5). 1007–1007. 3 indexed citations

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