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

Announcements

Interested in the Integrated Calculus book? (Or its Errata List?) (Or having stock issues? If so, email me)

Free puzzles to waste all of your precious time are at Brainfreeze Puzzles.

Current Courses (Fall 2009)

Math 245: Introduction to Proof and Discrete Mathematics

Schedule:

Previous Courses

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, Spring 2009

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

Professional

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 2009 SUMS Conference

Other Stuff

About Laura (a bit outdated, oh well)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:
* Line up those logos, people
* Secret Code in Color Printers Lets Government Track You (bonus: includes a simple example of error-checking codes)
* 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