Prof. Jonathan L.F. King's Home Page

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[A 2-dimensional Prof. King on unicycle]

Jonathan L.F. King
(The picture is a little old…I now have a beard.)

Recent news

We contra-danced on a moving float in the Melrose parade. .

GENERAL INFORMATION

You can contact me in several ways.
There is a page with general MathDept information.
Note that there is help available if you have difficulties browsing or printing my webpages.

Past conferences at UFMath that I have helped organize:

Midwest Dynamical Systems Meeting during 9-12 March 2000.
An AMS Conference. in March of 1999.

(Here is a partial list of (quite ancient) talks/seminars that I have given.)

Teaching

My Teaching Page, has links my schedule and to my current courses, as well as a wealth of material (exams, pamphlets) from previous classes. For letters of recommendation LOR

, there is required information.

Articles

Below is a sampling of my articles; most are compressed and -unless mentioned otherwise- are in postscript. An almost complete list of my papers is available, along with several preprints.

Many of the articles have abstracts. In addition, if your site subscribes to Mathematical Reviews, then you can read MR reviews of some of my articles electronically.

Three Problems in search of a Measure won a Lester R. Ford Award for mathematical exposition. The article appears in the 1994 issue of The Amer. Math. Monthly with the cover drawing of Bernoulli. (19 pages)
2 Aug 1997 The Board of Governors of the MAA awarded this article The Merten M. Hasse Prize, at the Atlanta Mathfest.
31 Mar 1998: A small Tiling Page has several articles.

BTWay: A list of upcoming Dynamics Conferences is maintained by The Institute for Mathematical Sciences, SUNY at Stony Brook.

Miscellany/Interests

Contradancing and contradance calling: I do ECD (English Country Dance) and a bit of Israeli Folkdancing (and occasionally others) and some ballroom dancing (e.g East-coast swing, Rumba).
Ελευσις: The creative, social, somewhat mathematical game called Eleusis. My Honors Calculus students at Berkeley taught me this game; I now teach it to many of my students. The simple rules of Eleusis (pdf) often lead to surprising patterns. (Eleusis is played with cards, but it is not a card game in the traditional sense.)
♜♞♝♛ Chess patzer: ♚♝♞♜ With a high-school friend, Paul Lewis, founded our high-school's chess club, probably in 1972. We competed occasionally with nearby high-schools, and were soundly trounced, as they had had clubs for years. Some 38 years went by without my much touching a chessboard, but now both my kids play, so I have taken it up again. Primarily, I play at the Free Internet Chess Server (FICS); reference FICS Directory. Games are stored at the FICS Games Database and FICS Adjudication.

Do folks know that there is a UF chess club? –there is indeed. And with its own GCC group and FB.

♖♘♗♕ Misc. resources: ♔♗♘♖
♟ A printable scoresheet.
♙ Explore openings: FICS (free) and 365Chess.com (free, registration) and chessgames.com (pay; the free version is quite limited).
♟ Endgame Tablebase.
♙ Live chess tournaments.
♟ Scid-vs-Mac [mac OS], Scid-vs-PC [microsoft OS], is a chess database-management program; quite good.
♙ Bill Wall's Chess Resource Site. He make freely available a pdf version of his book 700 Opening Traps
I used to juggle (mostly club-passing) and unicycle a bit. Before I entered a 2-dimensional State, I did some mild rock climbing, particularly at The Gunks in downstate New York. Alas, those days are gone for me now (and so are the muscles…).
GNV has an active Pickleball group.

Tidbits

The Mathematics Genealogy Project gives trees of Ph.D advisors.

May 1, 1994 was a happy day for me -the day I married my financée Erin. She then asked me to teach her how to ride unicycle.

By the way, I would like to give credit to the web sites which provided some of the images on my webpages.

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