Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics
Roop Hall, Roop 123
MSC 1911
James Madison University
Harrisonburg, Virginia 22807
Voice: (540) 568-3355
Fax: (540) 568-6857
E-Mail: taal@math.jmu.edu
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Laura Taalman Associate Professor Department of Mathematics Roop Hall, Roop 123 MSC 1911 James Madison University Harrisonburg, Virginia 22807 Voice: (540) 568-3355 Fax: (540) 568-6857 E-Mail: taal@math.jmu.edu |
Information for advisors/students considering Math 231 or Math 232
Schedule:
The Nature of Mathematics (103): Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Fall 2007
Integrated Calculus I (231): Fall 2001, Fall 2002, Spring 2003, Fall 2003, Fall 2004, Fall 2005, Fall 2008
Integrated Calculus II (232): Spring 2002, Fall 2002, Spring 2003, Spring 2004
Calculus I (235): Fall 2000
Calculus II (236): Spring 2001, Summer 2002
Introdution to Proof and Discrete Mathematics (245): Fall 2005, Spring 2006
Graph Theory (353): Fall 2008
Abstract Algebra I (430): Spring 2004, Fall 2004, Spring 2005
Topology (435): Fall 2006
Advanced Linear Algebra (467): Fall 2007
Knot Theory (REU): Summer 2003, Summer 2004, Summer 2007
Publications and Vita (pretty old - last updated 2/20/07)
Seeking submissions for:
* Papers to the The Online Journal of
Undergraduate Papers in Knot Theory
* Talks and posters to the
2008 SUMS Conference
About Laura (a bit outdated, oh well)
The Filora site (Click on "Calvin Web" to see Calvin's picture page!)
Picture-of-the-Week for Calvin
Things it would be better for you not to think about:
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Line up those logos, people
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Secret Code in Color Printers Lets Government Track You
(bonus: includes a simple example of error-checking codes)
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This is how small RFID tags can be. Do you think you could find
one if it was hidden in something you owned??
* How many insect
parts, rodent hairs, and mold spores are allowed in various
pre-packaged foods?
Corporate disobedience
(Update: One of the ideas from this site was recently used in the book
Life's Little Annoyances.)
 | If I were a Springer-Verlag Graduate Text in Mathematics, I would be Saunders Mac Lane's Categories for the Working Mathematician. I provide an array of general ideas useful in a wide variety of fields. Starting from foundations, I illuminate the concepts of category, functor, natural transformation, and duality. I then turn to adjoint functors, which provide a description of universal constructions, an analysis of the representation of functors by sets of morphisms, and a means of manipulating direct and inverse limits. Which Springer GTM would you be? The Springer GTM Test |