Dr. Edgar G. Goodaire

Proud winner 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) 737-8097
Fax:         (709) 737-3010
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

Who am I?

Back to the top

My Research

"Research for me is something like chasing squirrels. As soon as you spot one and leap towards it, it darts away, zigging and zagging, always just out of reach. If you're a little lucky, you might stick with it long enough to see it climb a tree. You'll never catch the damn squirrel, but it'll lead you to a tree. Chasing squirrels is a way to find trees! In math, the trees are called theorems." Terry Gannon, Alberta, winner of the 2000 PIMS Research Prize. Back to the top

Teaching

During the Fall Semester, 2009, I am teaching Section 2 of Math 2050 (Linear Algebra I) and Pure Math 2320 (Discrete Mathematics). I am also, for the second time, teaching Math 2050 by Distance Education.

This department has just started a new course-based masters programme a key feature of which is a graduate seminar. During the fall semester, faculty from the Department will give lectures on their research in order to help students find supervisors for projects which are a requirement of the new programme. During the winter semester, the students will talk in the seminar about their proposed work. I am in charge of the seminar during its first year and eagerly anticipate the experience.

Back to the top

What can I do with a Math degree?


Back to the top

People are always asking


Back to the top

I wish people would ask!

Back to the top

Some interesting math internet sites

Back to the top

Other internet sites I use

Back to the top

Visit Memorial University's Homepage

Visit Memorial University's Math/Stats Department Homepage

Mail to edgar@mun.ca

I've stopped looking for a G-loop of order 15

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.


Back to the top

This page was last modified Friday, 04-Sep-2009 10:42:10 NDT