Pamela B. Pierce

Department/Affiliation: Mathematics and Computer Science
Phone: 330-263-2389
Office Address: 314 Taylor
Email: ppierce@wooster.edu

Degrees

• B.A., Amherst College 1985
• M.Ed., University of Massachusetts 1986
• M.S., Syracuse University 1988
• Ph.D., Syracuse University 1994

Courses Taught

• Transition to Advanced Mathematics
• Real Analysis I and II
• Calculus with Algebra A
• Calculus for Social Sciences
• Calculus and Analytic Geometry II
• Discrete Mathematics
• Combinatorics and Graph Theory
• Complex Analysis
• Problem Seminar

Recent Senior Theses Advised

• Topical Web Crawlers (Evan Radkoff, Math and CS, 2012)
• Elements of understanding: mathematics, literature, and Nicolas Bourbaki (Daniel Pierce, Math and French, 2012)
• An Exploration of Topical Geometry (Rachel Frank, Math and Studio Art, 2012)
• Parity-based Measurement and Control of the Spatial Wave Function of Photons (Mohammad Saif Ahmad, Math and Physics, 2012)
• Going Inside the Rubik's Cube (Kaleb Reed, 2011)
• Flow Experiences in Experiential Mathematics (Rebecca Ross, 2010)
• A Study of the Calculus of Variations with a Focus on Geodesics (Jeffrey A. Willert, 2009)
• Topics in Computational Geometry: Steiner's Problem and the Voronoi Diagram (Daniel C. Weaver, 2007)
• Using Ethnomathematics as a Multicultural Technique in the American Mathematics Classroom (Stephanie M. Profio, 2004)

Awards and Professional Memberships

• MAA's Trevor Evans Award for best paper to appear in Math Horizons, 2009
• Mathematical Association of America
• Association for Women in Mathematics
• Ohio Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Publications

• Pierce, P., Math-Flavored Budapest, MAA Focus, December 2011/January 2012, pp. 16-17.
• The Circle Squaring Problem Decomposed (with John Ramsay, Hannah Roberts, Nancy Tinoza, Jeffrey Willert, and Wenyuan Wu) Math Horizons, November 2009.
• A New Sequence Based on Translations-Only Dissections of Regular 2n-gons (with J. Willert* and W. Wu*), Proceedings of the Midstates Conference for Undergraduate Research in Computer Science and Mathematics, The College of Wooster, November 2008, pp. 27-36.
• Sequence A141292 in The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (with J. Willert* and W. Wu*), published electronically at http://oeis.org/A141292" by N.J.A. Sloane (2008).
• On Some High Indices Theorems III (with M. Schramm and D. Waterman), Analysis, 28 (2008), pp. 367-373.
• Making the Mathematics Major Work for the Under-Prepared Student (with B. Gold, J. Ramsay, and L. Taalman), MAA Focus, Vol. 28, Issue 4, April 2008.
• The Circle Squaring Problem Dissected (with M. Rhollans* and J. Willert*), Proceedings of the Midstates Conference for Undergraduate Research in Computer Science and Mathematics, John Carroll University, November 2007, pp. 27-36.
• Some Generalizations of the Notion of Bounded Variation (with D. Velleman), The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 13, No.10, December 2006.
• Don’t Bet on Gambling to Strike it Rich - a column for the Wooster Daily Record,  June 2004.
• On the Invariance of the Classes ΦBV, ΛBV Under Composition (with D. Waterman), Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 132 (2004),  pp. 755-760.
• A Δ2-Equivalent Condition (with D. Waterman), Real Analysis Exchange, 26 (2001),  pp. 651-655.
• Bounded Variation in the Mean (with D. Waterman), Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society,  128 (2000), pp. 2593-2596.
• Regulated Functions Whose Fourier Series Converge for Every Change of Variable (with D. Waterman), Journal of Mathematical Analysis and its Applications, 214 (1997), pp. 264-282.