A Child's Garden of Fractional Derivatives

Tom Osler (osler@rowan.edu) is a professor of mathematics at Rowan University. He received his Ph.D. from the Courant Institute at New York University in 1970 and is the author of twenty-three mathematical papers. ln addition to teaching university mathematics for the past thirty-eight years, Tom has a passion for long distance running. Included in his over 1600 races are wins in three national championships in the late sixties at distances from 25 kilometers to 50 miles. He is the author of two running books.