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| Beverly West |
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| Senior Lecturer of Mathematics (Retired) |
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Education
M.S. (1963) University of Wisconsin
Research Area: Dynamical systems
My chief interest is in mathematics teaching, using interactive computer graphics, particularly in differential equations, multivariable/vector calculus, and dynamical systems (both real and complex). I've coauthored development of several software packages since the mid 1980s: MacMath, Analyzer *, Interactive Differential Equations and ODE Architect.
Selected Publications
A new look at the Airy equation with fences and funnels (with John H. Hubbard, Jean Marie McDill and Ann Noonburg) Organic Mathematics (Burnaby, BC, 1995), 277–303, CMS Conf. Proc. 20, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1997.
Differential Equations: a Dynamical Systems Approach (with John H. Hubbard); Part I: Ordinary Differential Equations, Texts in Applied Mathematics 5, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1991, xx+348 pp; Part II: Higher-Dimensional Systems, Texts in Applied Mathematics 18, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1995, xiv+601 pp.
Technology in differential equations courses: my experiences, student reactions, Revolutions in Differential Equations, 79–89, MAA Notes 50, Math. Assoc. America, Washington, DC, 1999.
The convergence of an Euler approximation of an initial value problem is not always obvious (with John Hubbard and Samer S. Habre), American Mathematical Monthly, April 2001, pp. 326–335.
Last modified: September 5, 2003