About Me
I'm from Appleton, WI, but grew up all over the Midwest. When I'm not doing math, you can find me playing music, cooking, eating, timekeeping, or hiking.
My favorite math fact is the Nielsen-Thurston Classification. My favorite non-math fact is that the ginkgo tree is sometimes called a "living fossil" - there are fossilized ginkgo leaves dating back to millions of years ago.
Here is a collection of mathematicians within my academic family, and whose research endeavors are closely related to my interests. Their websites are worth visiting:
If I were a Springer-Verlag Graduate Text in Mathematics, I would be Frank Warner's Foundations of Differentiable Manifolds and Lie Groups.
I give a clear, detailed, and careful development of the basic facts on manifold theory and Lie Groups. I include differentiable manifolds, tensors and differentiable forms, Lie groups and homogenous spaces, integration on manifolds, and in addition provide a proof of the de Rham theorem via sheaf cohomology theory, and develop the local theory of elliptic operators culminating in a proof of the Hodge theorem. Those interested in any of the diverse areas of mathematics requiring the notion of a differentiable manifold will find me extremely useful.
Which Springer GTM would you be? The Springer GTM Test