Daina Taimina

Adjunct Associate Professor of Mathematics

Web Site www.math.cornell.edu/~dtaimina/ Contact Information Office:  N/A Phone:  N/A 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); a chapter in Aesthetics and Mathematics, Springer-Verlag, 2006 (expected).

Linkages as mathematical tools, an invited book chapter for forthcoming MAA volume History of Mathematical Technologies, 2007 (expected).

Last modified: January 3, 2008