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Address:   Dept of Mathematics
Hamline University
St Paul, MN  55104-1284
Office:   Drew Science 123C
Phone:   651-523-2408
Email   wnk at hamline.edu
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A lighter look at group theory
 
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Courses: Fall 2012

CS 1250 -- Introduction to Computer Programming
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A note about all of my courses
The ONLY tangible entity that you gain from an education is what you can produce with your mind. Appropriating someone else's intellectual output as yours is the most flagrant travesty imaginable. Any act of violation of intellectual property rights -- this includes cheating and plagiarism -- will be cause for an immediate failing grade in a course. If I had the authority, it would be cause for dismissal from the university.

Computer Science at Hamline

One of the hats I wear at Hamline University is that of Director of the Computer Science Program. Though there is no Department of Computer Science, students can both minor and major in Computer Science through Hamline's Flexible Curriculum Proposal. As at other liberal arts universities, Hamline follows the recommendations of the ACM in structuring the computer science curriculum.

The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

This archive, (which can be found here) is a wonderful source of biographies of mathematicians and resources on the history of many mathematical topics. It was created by John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson.
You can find out more about me here. Some people find my humor hard to understand, here is a sample. (Last updated 2011-02-20.) I used to post only humor. I find that the times are much more serious and so now I post some items that I find relevant to the current times.
Since I do a lot of programming, I find value in words of wisdom of other programmers.
Confused about you IP address? You can determine your IP address and the name of your computer here

Top 200 Jobs

JobsRated.com offers help for uncertain job seekers by analyzing 200 different jobs according to 5 vital criteria: Stress, Work Environment, Physical Demands, Income and Outlook. In every area each job receives a specific score, and data is mined to provide the most detailed information possible -- for example, rather than listing average incomes, our rankings combine each job's mid-level salary with its outlook score, which eliminates data from employees making too much or too little to provide a more accurate result.
You may be surprised that mathematician is ranked as the number one job.

The Art of Problem Solving

Richard Rusczyk is the founder of AoPS which is a wonderful resource for anyone interested in honing their problem solving skills. There you will find information on competitions, scholarships as well as resources on becoming a better problem solver.

Musings

I have started posting some random musings on topics mathematical. They are not necessarily deep but reflect, well the title says it, random musings.

Varia

A little about the Dedekind Zeta Function
The n-Category Cafe

Items of Interest

Memoirs from the gulag

We read of war and the devastation that it causes. But at times seeing the pictures we lose track of the devastation of individual lives. My mother lived a very priveleged life before the outbreak of World War II. However the invasion of Soviet forces from the East (liberation as Putin would still like to claim) liberated both my father's and mother's families of everything that they owned, and deported my mother to a work farm within spitting distance of the Chinese border. My mother wrote her memoirs of those times and my daughter translated them into English.

Study on Playgrounds and Mathematics

Russell Lopez of Boston University reports a link between playgrounds at elementary schools and math performance. Read more ...

Algebraic Topology

My first research field, and my first-love is algebraic topology. Bob Bruner has a nice description of this beautiful subject as well as many other links to pages on topology.

John Baez' Pages

John Baez is a physicist who also does research on catgegory theory and topology. His pages always have something interesting.

C++ Builder

This is a RAD tool for the development of GUI interfaces for C++ code, now in its 4th release. I am archiving a mailing list for CPB and will be adding other links for this system

SiteComp for Windows

I have been working on a CAD package for the civil engineering market for a number of years. The concept of the package is due to Richard Harrison but the algorithms used in the package and its implementation are mine. You can find a full description here.

On 25 December 2007 Richard Harrison and I were awarded a patent for the development of this package.

Some interesting WWW sites

Here are some WWW sites which I have found interesting and/or useful.
A philosophy of using Java to teach computer science at SUNY Oswego. (Old but still interesting.)
Ask a Mathematician is an interesting site with great questions and responses.
The Topology Atlas is a wonderful resource for news on topology.
Phil Ochs:

His words are still relevant today, but is anyone listening.

Lessons on the history of computer science at the University of Regina in Canada.
arXiv is a repository of links to sources in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science and related fields.
Eric W. Weisstein (at the University of Virginia) has put on line the CRC Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics which has great definitions and links to many many areas of mathematics.
Computer Science at Dartmouth College
Indiana University Computer Science Entry Point
The Math Archives has a really fine collection of Calculus Resources Online, among many other wonderful things.
With data on half a million students from 41 countries, the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) is the largest, most comprehensive, and most rigorous international study of schools and students ever.
Univ of British Columbia Computer Science Home Page
Notabene Mailing List Archive

COMPUTER COMPANIES

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