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)

Information for advisors/students considering Math 231 or Math 232


Current Courses (Fall 2008)

Math 232: Integrated Calculus II

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

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 2008 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About Laura (a bit outdated, oh well)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