Sam Patterson

Professor of Mathematics

Carleton College

 

 

Courses:

Fall 2009:        Math 232  Linear Algebra

                        Math 400  Comps: Mathematics of Biological Oscillators

Winter 2009:   TBD

                        Math 400  Comps: Mathematics of Biological Oscillators

Spring 2009:    Math 341  Fourier Series and Boundary Value Problems

                        Math 351  Functions of a Complex Variable

Research Activities: 

·         Differentiable Dynamical Systems, especially homoclinic phenomena in three and higher dimensions

·         Applied Mathematics

·         The l’Hospital Translation Project

Mathematical Ancestry:

Patterson < Newhouse < Smale < Bott < Duffin < Bourgin < Birkhoff < E.H. Moore < H.A. Newton < Chasles < Poisson < Lagrange < Euler < Bernoulli (2) < Leibniz

Family Ancestry (one of 16,384 branches):

Patterson (2) < Worthington < Dew (2) < Wallace (6) < Campbell < Drummond < Stewart < James IV, King of Scotland

 

For Tutors

 

 

 

Sam Patterson,
Department of Mathematics,
Carleton College,
Northfield, MN 55057
507.222.4363
spatters@carleton.edu