David Seff is a well-known professor with over four decades of experience in the classroom. He teaches Mathematics courses, including calculus, geometry, algebra, probability, and statistics, as well as number theory. He co-authored a graduate-level textbook on constructive combinatorics with Dr Earl Glenn Whitehead as the principal author.

At the start of his career, David Seff served as an Adjunct Lecturer at City College, Baruch College, and other institutions in the New York metropolitan area. He also worked as a Project Leader and Programmer Analyst for Chase Manhattan Bank during this time. David created special utilities to retrieve data from crashed main hard disks after backup tapes had been overwritten to salvage securities information. His expertise saved the firm from a potential risk of several billion dollars. In addition, he upgraded and maintained Securities Tracking and Reporting Systems, as well as a variety of other systems.

Education

David Seff graduated from The Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, an institution of higher learning located in New York City where he received his Master’s Degree in Mathematics. David previously attended Yeshiva University where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics and Physics as well as a Master of Arts in History.

He was one of a hundred students nationwide who were selected to take graduate-level mathematics courses as a freshman in college and also received one of the top 100 grades nationwide in the Putnam Mathematics Competition. He was nominated for the senior math award as a freshman but did not receive it as a senior.

Professional Overview

David Seff was a software engineer at Guardian Life Insurance, where he worked as a technical specialist and system developer. David, along with many other programmers, developed and tested the company’s Y2K testing procedures. David helped save the company tens of thousands of dollars by teaching other programmers about new programming techniques to prepare for the turn of the century. David also coded new products and kept old stock for New Business Illustrations, coding and maintaining insurance forms using special coding techniques to guarantee six-digit precision and no internal or rounding.

Teaching Experience

David Seff also taught at Touro College for several years, working for Guardian, teaching night classes. After over a decade-long tenure with the life insurance firm, David Seff returned to teaching at Kingsborough Community College and then Brooklyn College. David Seff taught courses such as calculus, graduate math for secondary school teachers, and other courses. David Seff taught a course titled “Fun with Math” over several years that had a prerequisite of “disgust” for math. It had full enrollment and outstanding reviews.

David Seff also taught “Light, Lasers, and Optics” and “Color, Beauty, and Light” in physics. He taught “Elementary Number Theory” in math. In 1998, Professor Seff was awarded a faculty development grant, which was given to just one professor in each division. He taught “Non-Euclidean Geometry” and “Elementary Number Theory”.