Michael O'Leary
Professor of Mathematics
Berg Instructional Center 3081E
oleary@cod.edu
(630) 942-3976
April 2009
Mathematics Awareness
Month
The first graph is the land temperature data from the last ten years. Measuring the change of the average global land temperature anomaly with the included regression line gives a rate of 0.002 degrees Celsius per year. This is equivalent to a degree every 500 months (41.7 years).
Click here
to download the Excel Spreadsheet for these graphs.
Data from the
National Climate Data Center.
In the summer of 2004, I visited Yellowstone National Park. Click here for some pictures.
Beside the start of baseball season, my favorite spring pastime is bird watching. Click here for some pictures.
Education
- Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California, Irvine (1994)
- M.S. in pure mathematics from the University of California, Irvine (1991)
- B.A., Magna Cum Laude, from Concordia University, Irvine, with a Mathematics and Computer Science Major, Secondary Education Program, Lutheran Teaching Certificate (1988)
Publications and Completed Projects
- Online Faculty Elections, 2005
A web site written using ASP.NET that allows the faculty of a university to conduct faculty elections over the internet.
-
The Structure of Proof: With Logic and
Set Theory, Prentice Hall, 2002
This is a textbook written for students who are in the transition to junior and senior level mathematics.
- "Paul J. Cohen" and "Ernst Zermelo," The Biographical Encyclopedia of Mathematicians, ed. by Donald R. Franceschetti, Marshall Cavendish Corp., 1999. These two articles discuss the lives of two famous mathematicians whose main area of study is logic.
Current project
- Writing a college-level geometry course to be published by John
Wiley & Sons in early 2010.
Professional memberships
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Sciences Division · Berg Instructional
Center (IC) 3028 · (630) 942-2010
oleary@cod.edu
Updated
March 6, 2009
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