Patricia Allaire Oral History

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DescriptionDr. Patricia Allaire is a retired professor of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Queensborough Community College (CUNY), where she taught as an adjunct from 1978 until 1997, when she became a full-timer until her retirement in 2007. She delivered the Presidential Lecture "The Positively Fascinating History of Negative Numbers" in 2003 and was given the college's Excellence in Faculty Scholarship award in 2005. Allaire's publications and presentations focus on the history of mathematics, and she remains active in groups involved in researching the lives of mathematicians and how discoveries occurred in the earlier days of mathematics. In this interview, Allaire looks back on her graduate studies at Fordham University and Queens College as well as her early career teaching in New York City high schools and adjuncting at Queensborough Community College. Motivated by a potential full-time position at Queensborough, she pursued doctoral studies at Adelphi University that fueled her interest in the history of mathematics, specifically the mathematician Duncan Gregory and symbolic algebra, her dissertation topic. Allaire reflects upon her work as a full-timer, the courses she taught over the years, her service as Deputy Chair and the colleagues she worked with for 30 years.InterviewerWallach, PatrickIntervieweeAllaire, PatriciaSourceInterview conducted as part of the Queensborough Community College Retired Mathematics & Computer Science Faculty Oral History Project.Date RecordedMarch 29, 2023

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

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Patricia Allaire Oral History