Teaching philosophy

Engage, empower and guide students to discover the beauty of mathematics, expose students to relevant and awe-inspiring applications and mentor students in their research interests.

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Mathematics is the most elusive of all the arts. It took 8 years of serious study to even begin to understand the medium and begin to work with it in a creative way. Math is art. I wouldn’t be a mathematician otherwise.

FOr Students

PatrickJMT on youtube works out examples from algebra, trig, calculus, linear algebra, etc. 

What's your play personality?

a wonderful/ridiculous/wonderfully ridiculous website to go to if you are frustrated, stressed, and need to hear words of encouragement from a math professor. 

classes taught

elementary function theory
introduction to statistics
mathematical concepts
explorations in mathematics
modern calculus I
modern calculus III
calculus I
calculus II
calculus III
differential equations
linear algebra
real analysis I
real analysis II
algebraic structures I
algebraic structures II
special topics: projective geometry
geometry
special topics: frame theory
special topics: advanced linear algebra and its applications to digital technology
first year seminar: 
   hidden perspectives, mathematics in art and art in mathematics
London semester courses: 
   mathematical influences in art
   victorian society and mathematics in wonderland and flatland
independent study:
   investigating COVID-19 data at Southwestern University
   background on 3D slices of quaternion Julia sets for abstract sculpture
   lewis carroll and the mathematics of wonderland
   mathematical background for an android app: geometry and music
   image processing: fourier analysis, wavelet analysis and compressed sensing
   projective geometry: perspective drawing, philosophy, algebraic geometry
   perspective drawing and geometry
paideia:
   creativity cohort
   representing gender course: explorations in mathematics