Alan Chutsky Oral History

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DescriptionAlan Chutsky was a retired Professor of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Queensborough Community College, where he taught full-time from 1968 until his retirement in 2005. In this interview, Chutsky looks back on his early education at Brooklyn Tech and Brooklyn College, leading to graduate studies at the University of California in Riverside and later St. John’s University. After receiving his master’s degree, he taught at St. John’s for three years until being hired at Queensborough in 1968. He continued his doctoral studies at Adelphi University in the field of quaternions, his dissertation topic. Chutsky reflects upon his years of teaching, recalling entertaining stories of students and other faculty, his time as department chair and his travels around the world during winter and summer breaks. Sadly, Alan passed away in March 2024, just seven months after the interview was recorded.InterviewerWallach, PatrickIntervieweeChutsky, AlanSourceInterview conducted as part of the Queensborough Community College Retired Mathematics & Computer Science Faculty Oral History Project.Date Recorded August 9, 2023

CollectionQueensborough Community College Retired Mathematics & Computer Science Faculty Oral History Project

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Alan Chutsky Oral History