THE BOOK!

My book Benjamin Franklin's Numbers is available now! Check your local bookstore or order from Princeton University Press or Amazon. You can read the reviews here and the first chapter here. Interviews can be found at Radio Times and Technica, capsule reviews at NPR.org and New Scientist , and the latest review at Convergence. Eminent Franklin biographer James Srodes weighs in for the Washington Times. Find out more at Science News or at my Franklin page.

Book Events

The next book talk will be held on Thursday, May 1, at the annual meeting of the CPMA in Harrisburg.

PUBLICATIONS

Benjamin Franklin's Numbers (book), Princeton University Press, available 2008.

A bent for magic. Mathematics Magazine, 31:3, 2006.

A strange new prime pattern. (With O. Marrero.) Journal of Recreational Mathematics, 33:4, 2005.

Some magic squares of distinction. Math Horizons 11, 2004.

Multiplier systems. Acta Arithmetica, 108:3, 2003.    figure

Coin ToGa: A coin-tossing game. College Mathematics Journal, May 2003. (With O. Marrero.)

Franklin's Other 8-Square. Journal of Recreational Mathematics 31:3, 2003.

Binary matrices. Elemente der Mathematik 57:4, 2002. (With O. Marrero.)

Digging for squares. Math Horizons 9:4, April 2002, and anthologized in the "greatest hits" collection The Edge of the Universe .   web supplement

The lost squares of Dr. Franklin. American Mathematical Monthly 108:6, 2001.   how-to page rare squares circle gazette

Row coincidences in nonsingular binary matrices. European J. of Combinatorics 22:2, 2001. (With O. Marrero.)

A generalization of the Lipschitz summation formula and some applications. Proc. Amer. Math. Society 129:11, 2001. (With W. Pribitkin.)

A Hecke correspondence theorem for nonanalytic automorphic integrals. J. of Number Theory 83:2, 2000. figures summary

Convergence of Poincaré series with two complex coweights. Contemporary Mathematics 251, 2000. summary

Nonanalytic automorphic integrals on the Hecke groups. Acta Arithmetica 90:2, 1999. figure summary dissertation

Undergraduate Courses

MAT 1235/ Introductory Statistics II

MAT 1325/ Calculus for Liberal Arts II

MAT 1330/ Calculus and Quantitative Analysis I

MAT 1335/ Calculus and Quantitative Analysis II

MAT 1500/ Calculus I for Science and Engineering

MAT 2500/ Calculus III for Science and Engineering

MAT 2705/ Differential Equations with Linear Algebra

MAT 3500/ Modern Algebra I

MAT 4110/ Combinatorics

MAT 5400/ Complex Analysis

Graduate Courses

MAT 7610/Complex Analysis

MAT 7660/ Linear Algebra

MAT 7670/ Mathematical Logic

MAT 7770/ Number Theory

MAT 8650/ Abstract Algebra

MAT 8790/ Selected Topics





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