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I've been a professor of mathematics at The University of North Carolina - Asheville since 1997. I've been using Mathematica since I started graduate school in mathematics at Ohio State in 1989. At that time, we used version 1.1 (as I recall) to teach calculus in our Calculus and Mathematica classes. I've used it pretty much continuously in my teaching and research since then.

In addition to my posts on SE, you can find some of my papers, teaching notebooks and other Mathematica based oddities strewn throughout my website.

In recent years, I've also worked as a part-time consultant to Wolfram Research focusing on development of mathematical content for WolframAlpha.


Apr
18
revised How can you combine lines in LATEX, and lines Mathematica?
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Apr
14
comment Series expansion in terms of Hermite polynomials
Probably the best answer. It uses the orthogonality and speeds things up using the closed form. +1
Apr
14
comment Series expansion in terms of Hermite polynomials
Ahh... Algebra. I accidentally studied analysis in graduate school. :)
Apr
14
answered Series expansion in terms of Hermite polynomials
Apr
12
awarded  Nice Answer
Apr
10
awarded  Nice Answer
Apr
7
reviewed Approve suggested edit on BC for transport equation using NDSolve
Mar
30
reviewed Reject suggested edit on Dual complex integral over implicit path using contour plot
Mar
29
comment Strange behaviour of PolyLog Function
@Rainer Again, I'm not an expert on PolyLogs specifically, but this is a common issue in special function evaluation. I certainly wouldn't trust the result of N[Sin[E^500]], I would be more comfortable with N[Sin[E^500], 20], after increasing $MaxExtraPrecision to 400 or so.
Mar
29
answered Strange behaviour of PolyLog Function
Mar
29
comment List reversion inspired by Python
This works: Range[10][[10 ;; 1 ;; -1]]. It's not an idiom I've used, but found it pretty easily in the documentation.
Mar
29
comment List reversion inspired by Python
Is there a reason that you don't want to use the Reverse command?
Mar
28
comment Matrix Determinant
@belisarius The OP typed in exactly like that. All I did was add some leading spaces so that the input would be formatted on the webpage here, as opposed to all run together the way it was. Like everyone, I don't know if that format is correct or not; only the OP can say.
Mar
28
comment Matrix Determinant
I edited your "fortran output" just a bit further, to make sure it was formatted properly, rather than wrapped. Are you saying that you have a text file in exactly that form, with possibly more rows for a larger matrix?
Mar
28
revised Matrix Determinant
added 14 characters in body
Mar
27
awarded  Talkative
Mar
27
comment Create triangular mesh from random list of points
@Szabolcs Hey, I upvoted! I was joking when I said I wasn't sure if I liked it.
Mar
27
comment Combining two notebooks
Can you be more specific about the nature of your"variables and functions"? How huge are we talking? You might be able to place them in a .m file and read that in. Or you might be able to place them in an initialization cell in a separate (collapsed) section in the same notebook. A little more information might help.
Mar
27
comment Create triangular mesh from random list of points
@Szabolcs It's just that ListDensityPlot is about the last thing I would've thought of. Back in the day, this returned a DensityGraphics object. I guess it now returns a GraphicsComplex with polygons. I use the Graphics`Mesh stuff all the time, though.
Mar
27
comment Create triangular mesh from random list of points
Hmm... I can't decide whether I like this or not. I guess I better upvote, just in case.