NonFiction Writing

I have written a memoir of my escapades from my days as a West Point cadet to the present day as a professional mathematician, from Beast Barracks to Berkeley and beyond. Rick Atkinson, four-time Pulitzer Prize-winner and author of The Long Gray Line, has called it “Captivating…hilarious...the experiences of a rambunctious life well led...” For a brief overview, click here.

Other nonfiction writing:

• The General Is In, Newsweek, October 13, 2003, p. 20.
• Russian Red Tape, Potpourri, Vol. 11, No. 3, 1999, pp. 65-68.
• Gary Jackson Obituary, The Assembly, USMA, Vol. 55, No. 2, Nov/Dec. 1996, p. 160.
• The Great Shark of the Bahamian Reef, Slum and Gravy 25, USMA, Vol. 66, No. 1, Sep. 1991, p. 55

Alumni Project UC Berkeley

In 2003, I donated approximately 1000 volumes of rare printed books and manuscripts to the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley. This collection documents the history of arithmetic and mathematics in the United States from the colonial period to the end of the 19th century, and more than half of the texts predate 1850. It is called the "Theodore P. Hill Collection of Early American Mathematics Books", and was featured in the 2005 Bancroft Library's Exhibit "Creators, Teachers and Practitioners of the Mathematical Sciences". Click on the following links for more information about this project.

Cut and paste: Theodore P. Hill Collection of Early American Mathematics Books into the Title search box of the Library listing of the collection Detailed history of the collection

For general queries about early American math books, please contact our book dealer, Marc Selvaggio, Bookseller ABAA, dsbooks@comcast.net, 1-800-356-2199.

For specific questions about the collection, please contact us at earlyamericanmathbooks@gmail.com

College Activism

For ten years, I was involved in campus activism, especially related to Freedom of Information and Freedom of Speech in academia. I wrote a handful of articles, one of which was published in the American Association of University Professors publication Academe, and established two websites dealing with basic freedoms on campus.

More recently, I have written about problems in the world of academic publishing, and I continue to advise academic professionals who are victims of the System, especially in these times when financial crises may override basic academic rights and freedoms.

• Hoisting the Black Flag, Letter to the Editor, Notices of the American Mathematical Society 57:01, January 2010, p. 7.
• How to Publish Counterexamples in 1 2 3 Easy Steps, by T.P. Hill, online publication on scribd.com, posted Sep 16, 2009.
• You have a Right to Information, Academe, Vol. 92, No. 5, September/October 2006, pl 34. (This article contains online references.)
• Let the Sunshine In! (with H. D. Hudson). (Article on benefits of Sunshine Laws. Originally submitted to The Chronicle of Higher Education.) (This article contains online references.)
• Sunshine Laws From a Faculty Perspective (with H. D. Hudson). (Rebuttal to Hearn & McLendon article "Sunshine Laws in Higher Education", Academe, May-June 2005. Originally submitted to Academe.) (This article contains online references.)
• Sunshine and Searches – Pulling the Shades, or Pulling the Wool? by Theodore P. Hill and Hugh D. Hudson. (Rebuttal to Hearn & McLendon article "“Choose Public-College Presidents in the Sunshine, but Know When to Draw the Shades", The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 2004. Originally submitted to The Chronicle of Higher Education.)

Alumni Project West Point

In preparation for the West Point Class of 1966’s Fortieth Reunion, held at West Point in September 2006, I established an archival USMA Class of 1966 website, www.usma66.org.

Outreach Vietnam

In the spirit of "Swords into (Scientific) Ploughshares", I started a book drive for the English-language International University, HoChiMinh City, to collect university-level English language scientific textbooks. My aim has been to strengthen academic ties, and to help the people of Vietnam, especially in the realm of higher education.