Webster Atwell Class of 1921 Professor of Mathematics
413-597-2399
Wachenheim Science Center Rm 242
Education
B.A. The University of Texas, Philosophy (1981)
B.S. The University of Texas, Mathematics (1981)
Ph.D. Brown University (1986)
B.S. The University of Texas, Mathematics (1981)
Ph.D. Brown University (1986)
Courses
MATH 325 LEC
Set Theory (not offered 2025/26)MATH 337 LEC
Electricity and Magnetism for Mathematicians (not offered 2025/26)MATH 405 LEC
Representation Theory and Special Functions (not offered 2025/26)MATH 407 LEC
Dance of the Primes (not offered 2025/26)MATH 478 LEC
On Expressing Numbers (not offered 2025/26)Biography
My research is in algebraic and differential geometry and, recently, in number theory. In particular, I have been concerned with the Hermite problem (which asks for generalizations of continued fractions). I was an undergraduate at the University of Texas at Austin, a graduate student at Brown and an Evans Instructor at Rice before coming to Williams in 1989. I spent the academic year of 1992-93 on sabbatical at the University of Washington, the academic year of 2000-01 and also the year of 2012-2013at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and the academic year of 2016-2017 at the Insitut de Recherche en Informatique Fondamentale at what is now Université de Paris.