Deborah J. Bennett

Bennett is the coauthor of the textbook Algebra for All (with Phillip Aikey and Julio Guillen, McGraw-Hill, 1997). She is also the author of two popular mathematics books, Randomness (Harvard University Press, 1998), and Logic Made Easy: How to Know When Language Deceives You (W. W. Norton, 2004). Her book Logic Made Easy was listed as an Outstanding Academic Title in 2004 by Choice Reviews.

She joined New Jersey City University as an assistant professor of mathematics in 1993, adding a concurrent appointment in education in 1999. She has since become a full professor, and served two terms as president of the University Senate.

After a year in Ghana teaching mathematics through the Peace Corps, she became a mathematics instructor at Pace University from 1981 to 1987, and at Farmingdale State College from 1984 to 1993. While doing this, she also completed a Ph.D. in mathematics education at New York University in 1993. Her dissertation, The Development of the Mathematical Concept of Randomness: Educational Implications, was supervised by Kenneth P. Goldberg.

Bennett is originally from Tuscaloosa, Alabama; her father was a military officer and her mother worked as a computer systems analyst. She majored in mathematics at the University of Alabama, graduating in 1972, and worked as a researcher at the Institute for Defense Analysis and as an operations researcher for the US Government Accountability Office before returning to graduate school for a master's degree in operations research at George Washington University in 1980.

Deborah Jo Bennett (born 1950) is an American mathematician, mathematics educator, and book author. She is a professor of mathematics at New Jersey City University.