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"Elegance" is a term rarely applied to mathematics,but Dr. George E. Bardwell discoveredan "elegance and beauty" which attracted himto this field. He is now a joint associate professorin the Department of Statistics and Researchand the Department of Mathematics.Dr. Bardwell wouldlike to see mathematics humanizedand less stereotyped as a sterilescience, becoming a link between all thesciences and humanities.Educated at the University of Colorado, he receiveda degree in electrical engineering, anM.S. in business management and in 1961, hisPh.D. in pure mathematics.Dr. Bardwell enjoys research, but finds in theclassroom situation an "association with youngstudents with the inquisitiveness that rusts withage." He is intent on bringing the social implicationsof mathematics to his students, and encouragesthe association of its history and evolutionto related fields.56