Associate
Professor
Department of Mathematics and
308
800
(205) 726-2009
ssstanle@samford.edu
Samford University's homepage
My Erdos number is 3 (Chui, Schumaker, Stanley). To compute yours visit the Erdos number project.
My Ph.D. advisor, Larry
L. Schumaker, has traced our mathematical family
back to Lagrange. Click here to see
a complete genealogy.
Here are some of my favorite quotes:
When you can do the common
things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the
world. George Washington Carver
It is much more important to be oneself than anything else. Virginia Woolf
Here are some websites related to my research interests. Click away!
Approximation Theory and Splines
Approximation
Theory Network
History of Approximation Theory
Spline
Bibliography
An
Interactive Introduction to Splines
Computer Aided Geometric
Design
Interactive
Bezier Splines
CAGD
Bibliography
SIAM Activity Group on
Geometric Design
Mathematical Biology
Society for Mathematical Biology
Women in Mathematics
Biographies of Women
Mathematicians
Women and Mathematics Information Server
Canadian Mathematics Society
Undergraduate Research
Council on Undergraduate Research
National Council on Undergraduate Research
The Pi Mu
Epsilon website has a list of national and regional conferences for
undergraduate research
in
mathematics.
Problem-Based Learning
Samford University
University of Delaware
Quantitative Literacy
Quantitative
Literacy at Hollins
Quantitative Methods For
Public Policy at Macalester College
MAA PREP Workshop
My educational background:
Ph.D., Mathematics, Vanderbilt University, 1996.
M.S., Mathematics, Auburn University, 1988.
B.S., Mathematics,
Judson College, 1986.
My publications:
Circular Bernstein-Bezier Spline Approximation with Knot Removal, co-authored with
Catherine Cusimano,
Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 155 / 1, (2003), 177–185.
Revitilizing
Precalculus Through
Problem-Based Learning, Journal of General Education, 51 / 4, (2002),
306-315.
Problem-Based Precalculus:
A Case Study, Research and Development in Problem Based Learning, 5
(1999),
208-213.
Quasi-interpolants
Based on Trigonometric Splines,
co-authored with Tom Lyche and Larry L. Schumaker,
Journal of Approximation Theory
95 (1998), 280-309.
Shape-Preserving
Knot Removal, co-authored with Larry L. Schumaker, Computer
Aided Geometric Design
13 (1996) 851-872.
Websites for mathematical organizations:
Mathematical
Association of America
American
Mathematical Society
Society
for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Association
for Women in Mathematics
Mathematical career information:
MAA
Website
Another MAA Website
AMS
Website
SIAM Website
AWM Website
IMA Website
Purdue Website
Websites for Research Experiences for Undergraduates (
NSF
Website
AMS Website
“But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for
us.” Romans 5:8
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