Mark McClure

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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.

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Mar 27	comment	Create triangular mesh from random list of points @ThomasJebbSturges No problem!
Mar 27	comment	Create triangular mesh from random list of points @ThomasJebbSturges Does the edit help?
Mar 27	revised	Create triangular mesh from random list of points added 462 characters in body
Mar 27	comment	Create triangular mesh from random list of points You now have two upvotes and with them, the vaunted power to post images! Please post responsibly. :)
Mar 27	revised	Create triangular mesh from random list of points added 126 characters in body
Mar 27	answered	Create triangular mesh from random list of points
Mar 26	comment	Generating a Sierpinski carpet @whuber Almost - have you seen the packages on my Mathematica page: facstaff.unca.edu/mcmcclur/Mathematica.html These include not just image generation code but code to compute Laplacians on self-similar sets and code to compute the dimensions of self-similar sets of finite type, where the open set condition is not satisfied.
Mar 26	comment	Why doesn't Translate work with PolyhedronData? @hhh Well, if you execute the command, you'll see what the return value is, I guess. Also, all the different possible invocations and their outcomes are well documented on the page that I linked to.
Mar 26	answered	Generating a Sierpinski carpet
Mar 26	answered	Why doesn't Translate work with PolyhedronData?
Mar 26	comment	Dynamic boundaries for FindRoot @gpap Rather than restrict the functions, as you suggest, perhaps you could redefine the functions via reflection. That way you could simply recover the correct value by re-reflection, if necessary.
Mar 25	comment	Gram Schmidt Process for Polynomials I happen to be teaching exactly this topic in my PDE class today. My Legendre polynomial notebook is the last link on our class webpage: sites.google.com/a/unca.edu/mark-mcclure/home/classes/…
Mar 21	revised	Plotting an array of data onto a sphere added 439 characters in body
Mar 21	comment	Plotting an array of data onto a sphere @ThomasJebbSturges Yes, I got your messages now that you've flagged me. I believe that you would be pinged too, if I'd provided and answer, rather than just edited your question. I wasn't able to answer because the question had been closed as a duplicate. It's also similar to my answer here: mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/15047/… I'll make a small edit to clarify the `#` issue, as well.
Mar 20	comment	Why is this Mandelbrot set's implementation infeasible: takes a massive amount of time to do? @hhh They come with the book! An antiquated concept, I know.
Mar 20	comment	How to find all graph isomorphisms in FindGraphIsomorphism Awesome! Although it worked for my purposes "Rough around the edges" is a polite description. The package was originally written to help some REU students solve some specific questions in graph theory. Thus, the current available functionality is small and chosen for a specific task. But it is a start and should be easy to add to, for those familiar with C programming and MathLink. And, thanks to Szabolcs for getting the package to work with the latest version of igraph!
Mar 20	comment	Why is this Mandelbrot set's implementation infeasible: takes a massive amount of time to do? @acl Thanks! I can live without the upvotes; I tend to be conservative with mine, anyway.
Mar 20	answered	Why is this Mandelbrot set's implementation infeasible: takes a massive amount of time to do?
Mar 20	comment	Why is this Mandelbrot set's implementation infeasible: takes a massive amount of time to do? @halirutan What was the OP asking?
Mar 20	comment	Why is this Mandelbrot set's implementation infeasible: takes a massive amount of time to do? +1 I swear I didn't even know that `ArrayPlot` accepted complex values!