Mathematica Trainer: Ken Levasseur

Ken Levasseur provides training courses through the UMass Lowell CyberEd system. His course "Computer Algebra with Mathematica" is an online, three-credit university course. It is designed for Mathematica beginners who have completed at least two semesters of college-level mathematics and one semester of programming.

Ken Levasseur is a 1971 graduate of Saint Anselm College. He earned his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Rhode Island in 1980 with a research specialty of approximation theory and as an advisee of Jim Lewis. Since 1980 he has been a member of the Department of Mathematical Sciences at UMass Lowell. His primary interests are discrete mathematics, applied abstract algebra, and problem solving. Ken has been a Mathematica user for almost 10 years (since Version 1.2) and is the author of several articles on Mathematica. He was a Visiting Scholar at Wolfram Research in 1995 and 1996.

Levasseur is a coauthor with Al Hibbard of the forthcoming Exploring Abstract Algebra with Mathematica (EAAM) (TELOS/Springer-Verlag, 1998). EAAM, a suite of packages accompanied by a guide and a series of group and ring labs based on the packages, is designed to help students explore concepts of abstract algebra.

Contact Information

web: http://www.uml.edu/dept/math/faculty/levasseur.html

email: Kenneth_Levasseur@uml.edu

phone: 978-934-2414

fax: 978-934-3053