Faculty
Brent Carswell
Associate Professor
Department Chair
Rachel Weir
Associate Provost
Professor of Mathematics
Staff
Department Statistics
- Ratio of majors to full-time department faculty: 3:1
- Average class size, introductory: 20-25
- Average class size, advanced: 10-15
Faculty Emeriti
- Michael J. Barry B.A., M.A., University College, Dublin; M.S., Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
- Harald Ellers B.S., University of Toronto; Ph.D., University of Illinois
- Ronald E. Harrell B.A., University of Maine; M.A., Ph.D., University of Maryland
- Tamara Lakins B.S., M.S., Western Illinois University; Ph.D., University of Illinois (Urbana)
Selected Publications and Achievements
- “On a Conjecture of Alvis,” (co-author) published in Journal of Algebra
- “Ramsey’s Theorem for Trees: the Polarized Tree Theorem and Notions of Stability,” (co-author) published in Archive for Mathematical Logic
- A First Course in Discrete Dynamical Systems, published by Springer-Verlag
- “Composition Operators with Maximal Norm on Weighted Bergman Spaces,” (co-author) published in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society
- “Branching Rules for Specht Modules,” (co-author), published in Journal of Algebra
- “The Defect Groups of a Clique,” published in Journal für die Riene und Angewandte Mathematik (Crelle’s Journal)
- “Ergodic Transformations of Lebesgue Spaces,” published in Advances in Mathematics
- “On the Origin and History of Ergodic Theory,” published in Bollettino di Storia delle Scienze Matematiche
- The Commentaries of al-Nayrizi and Albertus Magnus on Book I of Euclid’s Elements of Geometry, 3vols., published by Brill Academic Publishers
- “A four-dimensional deformation of a numerical Godeaux Surface,” published in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society
- “Commutators of composition operators with adjoints of composition operators on weighted Bergman spaces,” (co-author) published in Complex Variables and Elliptic Equations
- “Normal weighted composition operators on weighted Dirichlet spaces,” (co-authored with Allegheny students) published in Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications
- The Tools of Mathematical Reasoning, published in the Pure and Applied Undergraduate Text series by the American Mathematical Society
- “Some nonsimple modules for centralizer algebras of the symmetric group,” (co-authored with Allegheny students) published in Involve: a journal of mathematics