Daina Taimina

Adjunct Associate Professor of Mathematics

Web Site www.math.cornell.edu/~dtaimina/ Contact Information Office:  525 Malott Hall Phone:  (607) 255-4008 Fax:  (607) 255-7149 Email:  dtaimina@math.cornell.edu Courses and Office Hours

Education

Dr. Math. (1992) University of Latvia
Ph.D. (1990) Academy of Sciences of Belorussia

Research Area: Geometry, history of mathematics, educational mathematics, automata theory

Selected Publications

How to use history to clarify common confusions in geometry (with D. W. Henderson); Chapter 6 in From Calculus to Computers: Using Recent History in the Teaching of Mathematics, MAA Notes 68 (2005), 57–73.

Experiencing Geometry: Euclidean and Non-Euclidean with History (with D. W. Henderson), 3rd Edition, Prentice-Hall, 2005.

Boolean functions with a low polynomial degree and quantum query algorithms (with R. Freivalds and others), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3381 (2005), p. 408–.

Experiencing meanings in geometry (with D. W. Henderson); chapter 3 of Mathematics and the Aesthetic (Nathalie Sinclair, David Pimm, William Higginson, eds.), CMS Books in Mathematics, Springer, 2006, pp. 58–83.

Historical mechanisms for drawing curves; in Hands On History (Amy Shell-Gellasch, ed.), MAA Notes 72, 2007, pp. 89–104.

Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes, AK Peters, 2009.

Concrete models and dynamic instruments as early technology tools in classrooms at the dawn of ICMI: from Felix Klein to present applications in mathematics classrooms in different parts of the world (with Maria G. Bartolini Bussi and Masami Isoda), ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education (to appear).

Last modified: November 10, 2009