Associate professor of mathematics

Office:

207 Stager Hall

Office hours for Winter/Spring 2009:

M/Th/F 9:30-10:30, W 2:00 - 3:00, or by appointment or serendipity.

Mailing Address:

Department of Mathematics
Franklin and Marshall College
P.O Box 3003
Lancaster, PA 17604

Phone:

(717)358-7163, or just 7163 from within F&M.

E-mail:

Link removed to limit spam; use firstname.lastname@fandm.edu

I arrived at Franklin and Marshall in August, 2002.

Teaching

In the spring I will be teaching MAT229 (Linear Algebra and Differential Equations) and MAT330 (Abstract Algebra).

• MAT229: LADE.
• MAT330: Algebra.

Math Research

My research is in geometric topology and finite transformation groups. If you want to know more than that, look here. For even more, just ask me. But fair warning: once you get me started, I may not stop for a while!

Links to places I've been:

Franklin and Marshall Mathematics Department.

Directions to Franklin and Marshall

McMaster University Department of Mathematics & Statistics. (Past)

McMaster "Daily News" (University home page).

Travel directions to McMaster

Indiana University Mathematics Department.(Ancient past)

IU Bloomington Home Page.

How to get to Carnegie Hall

Math-related links:

• Reference:
  • MathSciNet search. To make this work, you must be part of some subscribing group.
  • Employment Information in the Mathematical Sciences Search Form (Job listings)
  • e-MATH Home Page Home page of the American Mathematical Society
  • Topology Atlas Meetings, reference, and exposition. Lots of point-set and analysis-influenced topology
  • Math department web pages. Links to the home pages of all the math departments listed in the 1995 NRC rankings, and links to links of lots more.
  • Front for the xxx Mathematics Archive
  Los Alamos preprint archive.
  • Eric Weisstein's online math encyclopedia has escaped from the Evil Lawyers.
  (The phrase "Evil Lawyers" does not necessarily reflect the opinions or positions of the Board of Trustees of Franklin and Marshall College.)
  • Dave Rusin's Mathematical Atlas Big and well-organized. At its core is a collection of articles (many taken from newsgroups) organized according to the AMS Mathematics Subject Classification. No dancing babies; lots of plain text.
  • History of Mathematics archive at Saint Andrew's
  • Sci.math.research, via Google.
  • Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Includes some discussion of philosophy of mathematics (and OH, so much more!).
  • "Best Practices" for electronic communication of mathematics. (PDF format) Advice to mathematicians, librarians, and publishers on how to promote the continued viability of archived mathematical scholarship. From the Committee on Electronic Information and Communication of the International Mathematical Union.
  • TeX resources on the web.
  • Math 2000 CMS meeting at McMaster, June 10-13, 2000.
  • Topology of Manifolds and group actions at the CRM in Montreal, August 2001.
• Teaching and learning mathematics
  • Common Errors in Undergraduate Mathematics Written by Eric Schecter at Vanderbilt University.
  • How to study mathematics. by L. N. Stout at Illinois Wesleyan University.
  • Ask Dr. Math.
  • Tomorrow's Professor Listserver Discussion of teaching and career planning issues for young faculty.
• Diversions and general interest
  • Millennium Prize problems Million-dollar prizes for solving seven really famous math problems. Contains both semi-popular and more technical explanations and overviews.
  • Mathematical quotations. Compiled by Mark Woodard at Furman University.
  • And speaking of mathematical family ties, try the Mathematics Genealogy Project at Minnesota State University.
  • Math in the Movies.
  • Canadian Math Society's "cool site of the week" ... or month ... or year... page.
  • Mudd Math Fun Facts, from Harvey Mudd College.
  • Monster.

Other links:

• eDisk file server. Access password-restricted to F&M people. (If you're not me, change the login name.)
• Results from my first road race since 1987, and from my most recent 10K!
• Lancaster and region:
  • Weather Forecast direct from the National Weather Service.
• Linux and HTML and TeX and stuff:
  • Introduction to HTML at the University of Vermont.
  • NCSA Beginner's guide to HTML at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
  • Webmonkey, which bills itself as "The Web Developer's Resource".
  • Linux Documentation Project.
  • Linux Software Encylopedia.
  • TeX resources on the web.
  • TeX and TeX-related stuff on OS X. My own notes about setting up TeX, xfig, and so forth on OS X here at Franklin and Marshall. Nothing original; just notes and links so I don't forget.
  • Word Processors: Stupid and inefficient by Allin Cottrell, chairman of the economics department of Wake Forest University. An editorial on the distinction between form and content in electronic documents, and on the resulting advantages of (e.g.) LaTeX, or plain text for that matter, over MS-Word.