Department News

The USF Mathematics Department has an annual newsletter, The Quaternion, in which we report news of the department (as a whole, and of individual members). Each issue also has a feature on a topic in mathematics, mathematics education, or something else of interest to the mathematics community. Each issue is distributed in late August or early September.

If you would like to be added to our mailing list, please contact Greg McColm.

Here are some past issues, and features:

• Fall 2008 (in PDF format). Carol Williams on why the atomic clocks are running fast, and also knotting mathematics and art at USF.
• Fall 2007 (in HTML format). Boris Shekhtman on the Poincare Conjecture.
• Fall 2006 (in HTML format). The Mathematics Umbrella Group; in memoriam A. N. V. Rao.
• Fall 2005 (in HTML format). Boris Shekhtman on the size of the primes.
• Fall 2004 (in HTML format). Richard Stark and Greg McColm on The Ultimate Machinery of Life; remembering Al Goodman.
• Fall 2003 (in PDF format). Fred Zerla on why he uses the graphic calculator in teaching.
• Fall 2002 (in PDF format). Richard Stark on Leopard Spots, Emergent Properties, and Ghostly Mathematics; our departmental review.
• Fall 2001 (in PDF format). Natasha Jonoska on Computing with Biomolecules. Greg McColm and Ken Pothoven on What Happened to Calculus Reform?
• Fall 2000 (in PDF format). Boris Shektman on the Joys of Mathematics; the Urban Outreach program.
• Fall 1999 (in PDF format). Vilmos Totik on approximation theory.
• Fall 1998 (in PDF format). Chairman Marcus McWaters on the classification of USF as a Research I university.

Please direct questions to mthmaster@nosferatu.cas.usf.edu.
Last updated: 25-Oct-2006.
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