Professor Mark D. Meyerson

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I'm usually in my office (Chauvenet 362) from 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. For messages, please phone or send e-mail.

 
 
email: mdm@usna.edu
 
phone: (410) 293-6785
 
address: 572C Holloway Road
  Annapolis, MD 21402-5002
 

I work in the Mathematics Department at the U.S. Naval Academy. Click here for the boat picture used on the cover of our 1993-94 catalog. It's the boat that was the upset victor in the '92 Annapolis to Newport sailboat race. It was also used as the artist's model for the 1995 U.S. postal stamp honoring the Academy's 150th year.

Current web work: Java applets for calculus unusual tilings.

Mathematics in the Round, by Rob Meyerson

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Teaching:

In recent years I've been teaching core Calculus and Probability with Naval Applications.

Fall 2005 Calc3 Notes.

Research:

My research interests lie in the fields of topology and geometry. A few current topics of interest:

Some java applets and calculus web labs were produced with Professor Carol Crawford, see

http://mathweb.mathsci.usna.edu/faculty/meyersonmd/labs/index.html

Presentation slides on Visualizing Space-Filling Curves, Fractals, and Web Publishing. Animation demos.

An animated proof of the Pythagorean Theorem.

(This proof is usually attributed to H. E. Dudeney 1917, but there is some question as to whether that’s right: see

http://www.cut-the-knot.org/pythagoras/index.shtml proof #14.)

Fractals such as the piece of the Mandelbrot Set I've drawn here. Click on it for a bigger view.

Another interest is in finding high accuracy estimates of the "Lorenz attractor" pictured here. I've been using "continuous analytic continuation" to get 100-digit accuracy with reasonable computation time.

A recent paper, to appear in Math Mag, discusses the spindle-like graph of z=x^x, where x is real but all complex branches are considered for z. Click on the small picture for a big view. Contact me for preprints.

Computation of fractal dimension has been aided by the use of our MasPar (massively parallel) computer. Click on the schematic for a plain TeX file discussing its use.

Administrative tasks:

Post Renovation Cmte, Awards Cmte, Core Curriculum Cmte, Prior Chair, Plebes and Majors advising

Last update 18 November 2005

Mark D. Meyerson mdm@usna.edu Phone: 410-293-6785

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