Dr. Edgar G. Goodaire Proud recipient of the Canadian Mathematical Society's Distinguished Service Award, 2004 Department of Mathematics and Statistics Memorial University St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada A1C 5S7 Office: HH-2025 Work Phone: (709) 864-8097 Fax: (709) 864-3010 Email: edgar@mun.ca

Quick Search Who am I? My Research Teaching What can I do with a Math degree? People are always asking I wish people would ask! Favourite internet sites

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Who am I?

• A short profile
• What is mathematics?
• Why mathematics?
• On the value of pure research
• Universities, industry, and intellectual achievement, Comments by John Polyani, Canadian Nobel Prize Winner
• Why Curiosity Driven Research?, an essay by R. V. Moody, distinguished Canadian mathematician and first scientific director of the Banff International Research Station
• Why Support Research in Mathematics? An article by Ken Davidson, Former Director of the Fields Institute

My Research

• My Publications of the 20th Century
• 21st Century Publications
• A Brief History of Loop Rings: As of 1998
• The History Continues: As of 2007

Teaching

Where is Mathematics used today?

• From snowboarding to harnessing wind power, numerous places where math comes into play

What can I do with a Math degree?

• CMS: Mathematics with a Human Face
• AMS/MAA/SIAM
• Especially for high school students, freshmen and sophmores
• A great article describing all the things you can do with a math degree
• Careers in statistics

People are always asking

• How do you write those notes?
• How do I get TeX up and running on my PC?
• How do I include a PostScript file in a LaTeX document?
• About maple
  • Getting started
  • Labelling axes the way you want
  • Putting plots beside each other
  • Maple worksheets (and how to include Maple plots in PostScript files)
  • How to position text on a plot (and use greek symbols)
  • How to animate

I wish people would ask!

• How to prepare LaTeX files for a thesis and how to prepare a bibliography

Some interesting math internet sites

• Mathematics Education Resources
• Internet Math Library
• MathSciNet (Math Reviews online)
• Ivars Peterson's Mathland
• Ivars Peterson's MathTrek
• The Math Archives
• Math Forum@Drexel

Other internet sites I use

• Government of Canada
• Government of Newfoundland and Labrador
• City of St. John's
• St. John's Weather
• CMS: The Canadian Mathematical Society
• AMS: The American Mathematical Society
• MAA: Mathematical Association of America
• AARMS: The Atlantic Association for Research in the Mathematical Sciences
• The Atlantic Algebra Centre
• APICS: Atlantic Provinces Council on the Sciences - Mathematics and Statistics
• Waterloo Maple
• LaTeX Home page
• CTAN (TeX Archives)
• TeX Frequently Asked Questions
• WinEdt
• Ghostscript/Ghostview
• Ring Theorists with Web Pages
• The Mathematics Genealogy Project
• Online Dictionary of Mathematics

Visit Memorial University's Homepage

Visit Memorial University's Math/Stats Department Homepage

Mail to edgar@mun.ca

In March, 1999, Kenneth Kunen of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, announced that a G-loop of order 15 must be a group. The paper, entitled G-loops and Permutation Groups, is available from Dr. Kunen's web site.

This page was last modified Monday, 29-Oct-2012 11:58:35 NDT



In 2009, this department started a course-based masters programme which allows a student to complete a masters degree in twelve months. The requirements are six one-semester courses, a project and a a graduate seminar which runs like this. During the fall semester, faculty from the Department give lectures on their research in order to help students find supervisors for their projects. During the winter semester, the students give short talks about their proposed work. I am in charge of the seminar and look forward every year to hearing about the interesting work in which my colleagues engage.