Joaquín Bustoz Jr.

Joaquín Bustoz Jr. (1939–2003) was an American mathematician who worked as a professor of mathematics at Arizona State University.

[1] Bustoz was born in Tempe, Arizona; his parents worked on the local farms and also for the Tempe Elementary School District, which eventually named the Joaquin and Ramona Bustoz Elementary School after them.

He graduated from Arizona State University in 1962 with a degree in mathematics, and after two years in California working for Univac returned to ASU,[1] where he completed a doctorate in 1967 under the supervision of Walter Tandy Scott.

[3][5] Bustoz also worked on mathematics education on the Navajo Nation and the Pima reservations.

[1] For his efforts, president Bill Clinton honored him in 1996 with the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring.