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Requiescat in pace, Jacobus

Dr. Gary S. Stoudt

Mathematics Department

Address

314 Stright Hall
Mathematics Department
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
210 S. Tenth Street
Indiana, PA 15705
U.S.A.

E-mail:

Gary.Stoudt@iup.edu

Office Phone

724-357-4764

Course Schedule for Fall 08

MATH 217.003	Probability and Statistics	MWF 09:05-09:55	STRGT 112A
MATH 217.005	Probability and Statistics	MWF 10:10-11:00	STRGT 112A
MATH 225.001	Calculus III/Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics	MWF 02:30-03:20	STRGT 333
MATH 340.001	Principles of Secondary School Mathematics	TR 09:30-10:45	STRGT 202

Office Hours for Fall 08

MWF 11:00-12:00
TR 1:00-2:00

Links to Course Materials

MATH 105 College Algebra or MATH 110 Elementary Functions (precalculus)
Which graphing calculator should I buy?
MATH 342 Advanced Mathematics for Applications (Mathematica notebooks)
MATH 350 History of Mathematics
Web CT Courses MNO
MATH 355 Foundations of Geometry (Hyperbolic Geometry Software NonEuclid or Geometer's Sketchpad hyperbolic geometry scripts)
SCI 481 Readings in the History of Science (OLD)
History Comes Alive with Technology, NCTM 2001

Professional Interests

History of mathematics, Banach spaces, sequence spaces.
My dissertation adviser is A. K. Snyder.

Special Projects

SPIRAL (Science, Mathematics, Technology Preparation Involving Real-world Active Learning)
Interactive Learning in Calculus and Differential Equations with Applications

Personal Interests

Here is some personal information and a list of websites, useful and otherwise. Also, try a bit of philosophy.

"It just shows what can be done by taking a little trouble," said Eeyore. "Do you see, Pooh? Do you see, Piglet? Brains first and then Hard Work...."
In Which A House Is Built at Pooh Corner for Eeyore, from The House at Pooh Corner, A. A. Milne.

For mathematics students:

Don't just read it; fight it! Ask your own questions, look for your own examples, discover your own proofs. Is the hypothesis necessary? Is the converse true? What happens in the classical special case? What about the degenerate cases? Where does the proof use the hypothesis?
Paul Halmos, I Want to be a Mathematician

For all students:

Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling.... A merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.
Alfred North Whitehead, Aims of Education and Other Essays (1929)

For teachers:

Teaching is the communication of the process of investigation rather than a listing of ideas--not a new idea, not a complicated idea, but a widely ignored one nonetheless.
Roger L. Welsch, "Mock Apple Pie: The Conventional Teacher in an Unconventional Educational Program"

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