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Eric Schechter
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<h2 id="important-works">Important works</h2> <p>Schechter has authored a number of articles in <a href="/facts/Analysis/heFlRrYd">analysis</a>, <a href="/facts/Differential_equations/9MGbE3Ca">differential equations</a>, <a href="/facts/Mathematical_logic/SaI7Y3wN">mathematical logic</a>, and <a href="/facts/Set_theory/1ptfsvUP">set theory</a>. He is best known for writing two textbooks covering advanced material but written at an introductory level: </p> <ul><li>(2005) <i>Classical and Nonclassical Logics</i> (<a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 0-691-12279-2) <a href="http://www.math.vanderbilt.edu/~schectex/logics/">(more information)</a></li> <li>(1996) <i>Handbook of Analysis and its Foundations</i> (<a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 0126227608) <a href="http://www.math.vanderbilt.edu/~schectex/ccc/">(more information)</a></li></ul> <p><i>Handbook of Analysis and its Foundations</i> was reviewed at length by the <a href="/facts/Society_for_Industrial_and_Applied_Mathematics/2HY4T5WY">Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics</a> review, which wrote: </p> <i>Every once in a while a book comes along that so effectively redefines an educational enterprise -- in this case, graduate mathematical training -- and so effectively reexamines the hegemony of ideas prevailing in a discipline -- in this case, mathematical analysis -- that it deserves our careful attention. This is such a book.</i><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> <p>Schechter also maintains two webpages that are frequently cited: </p> <ul><li><i>Common Errors in Undergraduate Mathematics</i> <a href="http://www.math.vanderbilt.edu/~schectex/commerrs/">[2]</a></li> <li><i>A Home Page for the Axiom of Choice</i> <a href="http://www.math.vanderbilt.edu/~schectex/ccc/choice.html">[3]</a></li></ul> <h2 id="politics">Politics</h2> <p>Schechter is involved in political activism of the <a href="/facts/Democratic_socialism/JGdYaWre">democratic socialist</a> variety. His mathematical homepage includes a few anti-war statements,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> and his political home page includes a long essay about progressive ideology.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> He has worked as an organizer for the Nashville Peace Coalition, protesting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> At a meeting for the <a href="/facts/Living_wage/xdM7PW9t">living wage</a> movement on Vanderbilt's campus, he remarked that it is hard to bring up politics in a non-political environment, and expressed that people did not talk much about politics in the mathematics department at Vanderbilt.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> His father, Henry Schechter, was a deputy of the <a href="/facts/AFL-CIO/t8AFyWMH">AFL-CIO</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> </p><p>In 2010, Schechter ran for Tennessee's 5th Congressional District seat against incumbent congressman Jim Cooper,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a> but was defeated in the <a href="/facts/Democratic_Party_(United_States)/MNe3nDrL">Democratic</a> primary. Schechter describes himself as "a different kind of Democrat."<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="http://www.math.vanderbilt.edu/~schectex/">Eric Schechter's Mathematical Home Page</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.myspace.com/nonclassical">Eric Schechter's Political Philosophy Home Page</a></li> <li><a href="http://leftymathprof.wordpress.com">Eric Schechter's later Political Philosophy Home Page</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101111195100/http://schechterforcongress.wordpress.com/">Congressional Campaign Website</a></li> <li><a href="http://votenofatcats.com/">Additional Campaign Website</a></li> <li><a href="https://mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=31029">Eric Schechter</a> at the <a href="/facts/Mathematics_Genealogy_Project/J7AFo1Do">Mathematics Genealogy Project</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>[1], S.I.A.M. Review, Volume 40, Number 2, pp. 421-426. <a href="http://www.math.vanderbilt.edu/~schectex/ccc/siamrev/" target="_blank">http://www.math.vanderbilt.edu/~schectex/ccc/siamrev/</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Eric Schechter's Mathematical Home Page, Accessed Apr. 16, 2009. <a href="http://www.math.vanderbilt.edu/~schectex/" target="_blank">http://www.math.vanderbilt.edu/~schectex/</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Eric Schechter's Political Home Page, Accessed June 6, 2009. <a href="https://www.myspace.com/nonclassical" target="_blank">https://www.myspace.com/nonclassical</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>"Students, others to protest war outside Petraeus presentation", The Vanderbilt Hustler, Mar. 1, 2010. <a href="http://www.insidevandy.com/drupal/node/13253" target="_blank">http://www.insidevandy.com/drupal/node/13253</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Allison Malone, "NEWS: LIVE enlists support of Greeks, student government and faculty to bolster campaign", Jan. 25, 2007. <a href="http://www.insidevandy.com/drupal/node/2674" target="_blank">http://www.insidevandy.com/drupal/node/2674</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>"Obituaries: AFL-CIO Deputy Henry Schechter", Washington Post, July 22, 2005. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/21/AR2005072102207.html" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/21/AR2005072102207.html</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>"Political discord inspires hundreds to enter TN races", The Tennessean , Apr. 2, 2010. <a href="http://www.wbir.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=117654" target="_blank">http://www.wbir.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=117654</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>"Eric Schechter for U.S. Congress in 2010, Tennessee's 5th district". Eric Schechter. Archived from the original on November 11, 2010. Retrieved Oct 17, 2011. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101111195100/http://schechterforcongress.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20101111195100/http://schechterforcongress.wordpress.com/</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>