Prof. Jonathan L.F. King's Home Page

Modified: Friday, 30Dec2011 Printed: Thursday, 09Feb2012

Page: http://www.math.ufl.edu/~squash/index.html

[A 2-dimensional Prof. King on unicycle]

Jonathan L.F. King
(The picture is a little old…I now have a beard.)

General Information

You can contact me in several ways.
There is a page with general MathDept information.
Note that there is help available if you have difficulties browsing or printing my webpages.

Past conferences at UFMath that I have helped organize:

Midwest Dynamical Systems Meeting during 9-12 March 2000.
An AMS Conference. in March of 1999.

(Here is a partial list of (quite ancient) talks/seminars that I have given.)

Teaching

My Teaching Page, has links to my current courses as well as a wealth of material (exams, pamphlets) from previous classes. For letters of recommendation LOR

, there is required information.

Spring 2012

Pythagorean

Euclidean Geometry. Photo of text cover

Please see our webpage.

A Venn diagram

Sets and Logic. Helps students to read and produce proofs, and learn the basic language of modern Mathematics. There was a test of prerequisite knowledge on Wedn, 11Jan.; our webpage has a practice exam.

Autumn 2011

(theoretical) Linear Algebra. Matrices, determinants, Gauss-Jordan algorithm, eigenvalues/vectors, matrix diagonalization, various matrix decompositions. (There was a test of prerequisite knowledge in class, on Wedn, 24Aug; our webpage had two practice exams.

A Venn diagram

Sets and Logic . Helps students to read and produce proofs, and learn the basic language of modern Mathematics. (There was a test of prerequisite knowledge in class, on Wedn, 24Aug; our webpage has a practice exam.)

Articles

Below is a sampling of my articles; most are compressed and -unless mentioned otherwise- are in postscript. An almost complete list of my papers is available, along with several preprints.

Many of the articles have abstracts. In addition, if your site subscribes to Mathematical Reviews, then you can read MR reviews of some of my articles electronically.

Three Problems in search of a Measure won a Lester R. Ford Award for mathematical exposition. The article appears in the 1994 issue of The Amer. Math. Monthly with the cover drawing of Bernoulli. (19 pages)
2 Aug 1997 The Board of Governors of the MAA awarded this article The Merten M. Hasse Prize, at the Atlanta Mathfest.
23 July 2001 Flat stacks, Joining-Closure and Genericity (pdf).
This shows that for the generic transformation, the set of off-diagonal joinings is dense in the simplex of all joinings. Thus it generalizes the conclusion of the Weak-closure theorem, by weakening the hypothesis from rank-1 to simply a residual subset of the flat stacks maps.
31 Mar 1998: A small Tiling Page has several articles.

Pi Mu Epsilon

This semester, Prof. Keating, and I are the faculty advisors for the local chapter of the mathematics honor society called Pi Mu Epsilon, or just PME.

Miscellany/Interests

Contradancing and contradance calling: I do a bit of Israeli Folkdancing (and occasionally others) and bit of ballroom dancing.
Ελευσις: The creative, social, somewhat mathematical game called Eleusis. My Honors Calculus students at Berkeley taught me this game; I now teach it to many of my students. The simple rules of Eleusis (pdf) often lead to surprising patterns. (Eleusis is played with cards, but it is not a card game in the traditional sense.)
Chess patzer: With a high-school friend, Paul Lewis, founded our high-school's chess club, probably in 1972. We competed occasionally with nearby high-schools, and were soundly trounced, as they had had clubs for years. Some 38 years went by without my much touching a chessboard, but now both my kids play, so I have taken it up again.

Do folks know that there is a UF chess club? –there is indeed.

Here are a few online resources:
- Sigma chess, a chess-playing program for MacOSX.
- Bill Wall's Chess Resource Site. He make freely available a pdf version of his book 700 Opening Traps
I used to juggle (mostly club-passing) and unicycle a bit. Before I entered a 2-dimensional State, I did some mild rock climbing, particularly at The Gunks in downstate New York. Alas, those days are gone for me now (and so are the muscles…).

Tidbits

The Mathematics Genealogy Project gives trees of Ph.D advisors.

May 1, 1994 was a happy day for me -the day I married my financée Erin. She then asked me to teach her how to ride unicycle.

By the way, I would like to give credit to the web sites which provided some of the images on my webpages.

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