The Home Page of Dr. Donald E. Spickler Jr.

Dr. Don Spickler

Department of Mathematics and Computer Science

Henson School of Science & Technology, Salisbury University

Welcome

I am a professor of mathematics and computer science at Salisbury University. These pages mainly contain information for the students who are in my classes but I have also posted some software packages, classroom resources and image galleries which may be of some general mathematical interest. If you have any comments or questions about my work please contact me at the following address.

Dr. Don Spickler
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Henson School of Science & Technology
Henson Hall, 132E
Salisbury University
Salisbury, Maryland 21801
despickler@salisbury.edu

News

5/8/2012
- COSC 120 Lab page has been updated.
5/4/2012
5/2/2012
- COSC 120 Solutions page has been updated.
- COSC 120 Homework page has been updated.
5/1/2012
- COSC 120 Lab page has been updated.
4/30/2012
- MATH 306 Homework page has been updated.
- MATH 306 Solutions page has been updated.

Sections

Classes and Classroom Resources
This section contains, my current class schedule, information pages for my current classes, an exam archive of the 100-300 level classes I have taught at Salisbury University and archives of resources I have developed for my classes and public-domain documents found on the web.

The Mathematics Course Resources archive contains class handouts, Maple worksheets, Mathematica notebooks, labs, projects, exploration sets, and spreadsheets used in some of the mathematics courses I have instructed.
The Computer Science Course Resources archive contains class handouts, labs, projects, and example code used in some of the computer science courses I have instructed.
The Technology Guides & Workshops archive contains Maple and Mathematica guides, LaTeX handouts, materials developed for GeoGebra and GSP workshops I have run and an Anamorphic Art workshop I ran with Dr. Jennifer Bergner.

Undergraduate Research Projects
My main area of research is in the visualization of mathematical concepts, mainly for the college classroom. Along those lines I have a few ongoing projects that I like to get students involved in and a few I wish to start. I also do independent studies and undergraduate research projects in many different areas in pure mathematics, applied mathematics, mathematics education and computer science. This page contains short descriptions of projects that have been started and some that I wish to start as well as what background you need before starting the project. We can work on the background material together before you begin your project. If you or a group of you have an interest in going beyond the classroom please stop by and talk with me.

Software
Download free software packages that my students and I have developed over the past several years. One of my ongoing projects is developing freeware packages to aid in the visualization of mathematical concepts.

Galleries
View some galleries of mathematical images produced by both my software packages and those created by others. Most of the galleries are devoted to chaotic systems and fractal images. See how beautiful mathematics can be.