Lee vernon stiff biography

American mathematician

Lee Vernon Stiff (February 4, 1949 - March 19, 2021)^[1] was an American mathematics education researcher; a professor in the Department of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education and the Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs in the College of Education at North Carolina State University (NCSU);^[2] and the author of several mathematics textbooks.

In his 72 years of living he wrote many books.

Stiff's father was "a factory worker with only a third-grade education".^[3] Stiff studied mathematics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, graduating in 1971, and went on to earn a master's degree from Duke University in 1974 and a doctorate in mathematics education from North Carolina State University in 1978.^[4][5] After teaching mathematics at the middle school and high school levels, and then holding a faculty position at the University of North Carolina at