John Gay in Liberia
Gay grew up in suburban Chicago and Philadelphia, studied engineering physics at Cornell, mathematics at Princeton and church history at Union Seminary and Columbia. He, his wife Judy and their three sons lived, studied and worked in Liberia 1958-1974 and Lesotho 1975-2001. After retirement he and Judy live in Cambridge Massachusetts, where he continues his interest in and study about Africa.
Selected Writing and Publications:
Looking Back at My Life: A Reflection
Introduction
Part Two: Assessing my work in Africa
Part Three: What Africa taught me
Mathematics Among the Kpelle Tribe of Liberia
Intelligence in Action: A Study of Agriculture in Rural Liberia (2005)
The New Mathematics and an Old Culture (Gay & Cole, 1967)
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