Hello. Conceived in
New
York City, I have, since then,
relentlessly moved Northwards. Currently, I'm a Professor of Mathematics at Plattsburgh State University of New York in lovely Plattsburgh, New York (aka La Ville sur
la Lac by our friends in Montreal
).
Besides being in the department here since 1989, I
taught in Minnesota for a while; Minnesota is famed (infamed?)
for its weather.
My colleague Margaret Morrow
has helped solve our "two-body problem"; she's now also here in the math department!
She's originally from South Africa.
Here're some pictures.
Ph.D., University
of Rochester, May, 1989. My advisor was Carl Mueller.
M.A., University of Rochester, Feb. , 1985.
B.S., Marlboro College,
May, 1982.
MAT 221 A Calculus for Life, Management, and Social Sciences I , MWF 9-10, Hawkins 135
MAT 221 B Calculus for Life, Management, and Social Sciences I , MWF 10-11, Hawkins 153C
MAT 428 A Foundations of Calculus, MWF 12-1, Hawkins 144
My office is Hawkins 245C, phone (518) 564-4135.
Office hours: M 1-2, W 11-12 and 1-2, F 11-12 Also by appointment and when my office door is open.
Probability theory and stochastic processes, combinatorics, (discrete) potential theory, number theory, difference and functional equations, numerical analysis, and abstract harmonic analysis. Click here for my papers (with abstracts). I'm also pleased to send (p)reprints; just write me at Math. Dept., SUNY, Plattsburgh, NY 12901 or e-mail me at samuel.northshield"at"plattsburgh.edu. Other math-related things are described in my CV.
Here's a nice recreational math page.
There's ALL sorts of stuff in Eric's treasure troves
too. An interesting place to visit (but I wouldn't want to eat there) is the Primordial Soup Kitchen with all sorts
of Cellular Automata (may I recommend the downloaded mcell).
There's lots of stuff in the AMS page Mathematics by Topic as well as in The Mathematical Atlas.
Are you interested in a mathematician or some mathematical history? If so, then try here.
A few big indices are the Math Archives , Math Info Servers at Penn State and, its evil twin, Math Resources on the Web.
If you like probability or number theory, you might like the probability web or the number theory web.
Is there a sequence you can't crack? Try Sloane's integer sequence encyclopedia.
Is there a real number you can't identify? Maybe the Inverse Symbolic Calculator will help.
Mathsoft has a nice collection of math resources and there's a whole world of mathematics out there too; check it out!
Some nice discussion groups and other things can be found in the Math Forum at Drexel.
There's lots of Fibonacci number stuff is on these pages.
Here're some mathematicians' websites I enjoy looking at: Fan Chung, Peter Doyle, David Eppstein, Steven Finch, Timothy Gowers (and his links to mathematicians' websites), Andrew Granville, Robin Lock, Ken Stephenson, Doron Zeilberger.
My Erdos number is 3, what's yours? (My Gauss number is 7 and my Einstein number is 5 -- none of this has done me much good though).
Feeling queasy? If math is what ails you, then try consulting the Math Nerds (formerly the Math Doctor - but apparently couldn't pass the boards).
Two great papers, the National Enquirer and the New York Times ,would both be better with some comics like Dilbert. Finally, there's the Simpson's Archive.
Ever wonder what those Homeland Security warnings really mean? Try the terror-o-matic (while you still can). .... and never, ever, forget the duct tape.
Some fortune-cookie wisdom: Man who runs behind car gets exhausted; man who runs in front of car gets tired.
Email: samuel.northshield"at"plattsburgh.edu
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Voice: (518) 564-4135
Mathematics Department
SUNY
Plattsburgh, NY 12901
last modified 8/21/09