Research, Technical Reports and Awards

downloadable file 295KB The Department began publishing its Technical Reports series during the 1998/1999 academic year. The Reports are intended as an internal preprint series to stimulate faculty and student research and publications. It is expected that papers published in the series may undergo some modifications before appearing in a professional journal. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it , Interim Chair of the Department, is the Editor of the Reports.

Guidelines for the Authors

TTU mathematics faculty and students should submit to the Editor one printed copy of the paper along with a diskette containing .tex and .dvi files along with all macros and picture files needed to process the .tex file. It is preferred that papers be submitted in LaTeX2e using \documentclass{article} style. Submission in AMS-TeX is also possible. For more information regarding the technical aspects please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Downloading

The following Technical Reports have been published and are available for downloading.

2013

• "The Genre of Proof", Annie Selden, and John Selden, New Mexico State University, Tech Report No. 2013-1, downloadable file 503 KB

2012

• "Using Periodicity Theorems for Computations in Higher Dimensional Clifford Algebras", Rafal Ablamowicz, Department of Mathematics, TTU, and Bertfried Fauser, School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston-Birmingham, Tech Report No. 2012-1, downloadable file 136 KB
• "On Parallelizing The Clifford Algebra Product for Clifford", Rafal Ablamowicz, Department of Mathematics, TTU, and Bertfried Fauser, School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston-Birmingham, Tech Report No. 2012-2, downloadable file 123 KB
  
• "Square Roots of -1 in Real Clifford Algebras", Eckhard Hitzer,Department of Applied Physics, University of Fukui, Japan, Jacques Helmstetter, Universite Greauble I, Institut Fourier Mathematiques, France, and Rafal Ablamowicz, Department of Mathematics, TTU, Tech Report No. 2012-3, downloadable file 378.42 KB
• "Homeomorphisms on a Cantor Set with Sebsequentially Dense Orbits", Andrzej Gutek, Department of Mathematics, TTU, Tech Report No. 2012-4, downloadable file 263 KB
• "Text Revelance and Learning from One's Undergraduate Mathematics Textbook", Annie Selden, New Mexico State University, and Mary D. Shepherd, Department of Mathematics, Northwest Missourt State University, Tech Report No. 2012-5, downloadable file 342 KB
• "A Home for RUME: The Story of the Formation of the Mathematical Association of America's Special Interest Group of Research in Mathematical Education", Annie Selden, New Mexico State University, Tech Report No. 2012-6, downloadable file 690KB
  

2011

• "Transposition Anti-Involution in Clifford Algebras and Invariance Groups of Scalar Products on Spinor Spaces" , Rafal Ablamowicz, Department of Mathematics, TTU, and Bertfried Fauser, School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston-Birmingham, Tech Report No. 2011-3, downloadable file 224 KB
  
• " Possible Reasons for Students' Ineffective Reading of their First-Year University Mathematics Textbook", Mary D. Shepherd, Department of Mathematics, Northwest Missouri State University, Annie Selden, New Mexico State University, and John Selden, New Mexico State University, Tech Report No. 2011-2, downloadable file, 8.36MB
• "On the Transposition Anti-Involution in Real Clifford Algebras III: The Automorphism Group of The Transposition Scalar Product on Spinor Spaces", Rafal Ablamowicz, Department of Mathematics, TTU, and Bertfried Fauser, School of Compter Science, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston-Birmingham, Tech Report No. 2011-1,  downloadable file, 296KB

2010

• "Transitions and Proof and Proving at Tertiary Level", Annie Selden, Department of Mathematics, New Mexico State University, Tech Report No. 2010-3,  downloadable file, 269KB
• "On the Transposition Anti-Involution in Real Clifford Algebras I: The Transposition Map" , Rafal Ablamowicz, Department of Mathematics TTU, and Bertfried Fauser, School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston-Birmingham, Tech Report No. 2010-1, downloadable file, 360KB
• "On the Transposition Anti-Involution in Real Clifford Algebras II: Stabilizer Groups of Primitive Idempotents" Rafal Ablamowicz, Department of Mathematics TTU, and Bertfried Fauser, School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston-Birmingham, Tech Report No. 2010-2, downloadable file, 340KB

2009

• "Affect, Behavioral Schemas, and the Proving Process", Annie Selden, Kerry McKee, and John Selden, Department of Mathematics, New Mexico State University, Tech Report No. 2009-5, downloadable file, 135KB
• "Computations with Clifford and Grassmann Algebras", Rafal Ablamowicz, Department of Mathematics TTU, Tech Report No. 2009-4, downloadable file, 412KB
• "Geometric Roots of -1 in Clifford Algebras Cl p,q with p + q ≤ 4", Eckhard Hitzer, Department of Applied Physics, University of Fukui, Japan, and Rafal Ablamowicz, Department of Mathematics TTU, Tech Report No. 2009-3, downloadable file, 296KB
• "Schur Polynomials and the Irreducible Representations of Sn ", Sheela Brachey, Department of Mathematics TTU, Tech Report No. 2009-2, downloadable file, 245KB
• "Difficulties First-year University Students Have in Reading Their Mathematics Textbooks", Mary D. Shepherd, Department of Mathematics Northwest Missouri State University, Annie Selden, New Mexico State University and John Selden, New Mexico State University, Tech Report No. 2009-1, March 2009, **downloadable file, 8,600KB,.pdf(file too big)

2008

• "Gröbner Bases Algorithms for Grassmann Algebras in a Maple Package", Troy Brachey, Department of Mathematics TTU, Tech. Report No. 2008-1, October 2008, downloadable file, 204KB
• "Computation of Non-Commutative Gröbner Bases in Grassmann and Clifford Algebras", Rafal Ablamowicz, Department of Mathematics TTU, Tech. Report No. 2008-2, December 2008, downloadable file, 364KB
• "Some Applications of Gröbner Bases in Robotics and Engineering", Rafal Ablamowicz, Department of Mathematics TTU, Tech. Report No. 2008-3, December 2008, downloadable file, 754KB

2007

• "Teaching Proving by Coordinating Aspects of Proofs with Students' Abilities¹", Annie and John Selden, New Mexico State University, Tech. Report No. 2007-2, October 2007, downloadable file, 421KB
• "Overcoming Students' Difficulties in Learning to Understand and Construct Proofs", Annie and John Selden, New Mexico State University, Tech. Report No. 2007-1, August 2007, downloadable file, 148KB

2006

• "On the Parallel Lines for Nondegenerate Conics", Rafal Ablamowicz, Department of Mathematics TTU and Jane Liu, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering TTU, Tech. Report No. 2006-1, January 2006, downloadable file, 714KB

2004

• "Consciousness in Mathematical Problem Solving: The Focus, the Fringe, and Non-Sensory Perception", John Selden, Department of Mathematical Sciences at New Mexico State Univ. and Annie Selden, Department of Mathematics TTU & Department of Mathematical Sciences New Mexico State University, Tech. Report No. 2004-1, April 2004, downloadable file, 163KB
• "A Partial Characterization of the Cocircuits of a Splitting Matroid", Allan Mills, Department of Mathematics TTU, Tech. Report No. 2004-2, May 2004, downloadable file, 112KB
• "The Affinity of a Permutation of a Finite Vector Space", W. Edwin Clark, Department of Mathematics University of South Florida, Xiang-Dong Hou, Department of Mathematics University of South Florida, and Alec Mihailovs, Department of Mathematics TTU, Tech. Report No. 2004-3, July 2004, downloadable file, 283KB
• "More Than a Seat: Numbers and Symbols in the Cameroon Grasslands", Andrzej Gutek, Department of Mathematics TTU, Tech. Report No. 2004-4, July 2004, downloadable file, 198KB
• "Writing DLL in Assembler for External Calling in Maple", Alec Mihailovs, Department of Mathematics TTU, Tech. Report No. 2004-5, July 2004, downloadable file, 67KB
• "A Short Note on Strassen's theorem", Motoya Machida, Department of Mathematics TTU, Tech. Report No. 2004-6, October 2004, downloadable file, 168KB

2003

• "A Graduate Student's Guide to LATEX and AMS-LATEX", Rafal Ablamowicz, Department of Mathematics at TTU, Tech. Report No. 2003-1, February 2003, downloadable file, 387KB
• "Decadal Decline (1992-2002) of Loggerhead Shrikes on Christmas Bird Counts in Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee", Stephen J. Stedman, Department of English at TTU, and Michael Allen, Department of Mathematics at TTU, Tech. Report No. 2003-2, August 2003, downloadable file, 736KB
• "Errors and Misconceptions in College Level Theorem Proving", Annie Selden and John Selden, Department of Mathematics at TTU, Tech Report No. 2003-3, August 2003, downloadable file, 92KB
• "A Generalization of a Graph Result of Halin and Jung", Galen E. Turner, III, Mathematics and Statistics, Louisiana Tech University, and Allan D. Mills, Department of Mathematics at TTU, Tech. Report No. 2003-4, September 2003, downloadable file, 59KB
• "Set-Valued Duality for Finite-State Markov Chains", James Allen Fill, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, and Motoya Machida, Department of Mathematics at TTU, Tech. Report No. 2003-5, October 2003, downloadable file, 288KB
• "Idempotents of Clifford Algebras", Rafal Ablamowicz, Department of Mathematics at TTU, B. Fauser, Fachbereich Physik, Universitat Konstanz, K. Podlaski and J. Rembielinski, Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Lodz, Tech. Report No. 2003-6, October 2003, downloadable file, 147KB

2002

• "Tables of Integrals, the Cosecant Function, and Consistency", Brian O'Connor, Department of Mathematics at TTU, Tech. Report No. 2002-1, March 2002, downloadable file, 526KB
• "Two Research Traditions Separated by a Common Subject: Mathematics and Mathematics Education", Annie Selden, Department of Mathematics at TTU, Tech. Report No. 2002-2, August 2002, downloadable file, 107KB
• "Mathematics of CLIFFORD - a Maple package for Clifford and Grassmann algebras", Rafal Ablamowicz, Department of Mathematics at TTU, and Bertfried Fauser, Universitat Konstanz, Germany, Tech. Report No. 2002-4, December 2002, downloadable file, 282KB Revised August 2004, downloadable file, 282KB
• "Clifford and Grassmann Hopf Algebras via the Bigebra Package for Maple(R)", Rafal Ablamowicz, Department of Mathematics at TTU, and Bertfried Fauser, Universitat Konstanz, Germany, Tech. Report No. 2002-5, December 2002, downloadable file, 261KB Revised August 2004, downloadable file, 261KB

2001

• "The Dense Packing of 13 Congruent Circles in a Circle", Ferenc Fodor, Department of Mathematics at TTU, Tech. Report No. 2001-1, March 2001, downloadable file, 189KB
• "Clifford Algebra Space Singularities of Inline Planar Platforms", Michael Baswell and Joe N. Anderson, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Rafal Ablamowicz, Department of Mathematics at TTU, Tech. Report No. 2001-2, April 2001, downloadable file,178KB
• "Comparison of Centrality Estimators for Several Distributions", Jamie McCreary, Under the supervision of Dr. Michael Allen, Department of Mathematics at TTU, Tech. Report No. 2001-3, April 2001, downloadable file, 619KB
• "Various Estimations of Pi as Demonstrations of the Monte Carlo Method", Jamie McCreary, Under the supervision of Dr. Michael Allen, Department of Mathematics at TTU, Tech Report No. 2001-4, July 2001, downloadable file, 73KB

2000

• "Optimal Cylindrical-Block Designs for Correlated Observations", Nizam Uddin, Department of Mathematics at TTU, Tech. Report No. 2000-1, March 2000, downloadable file, 189KB
• "On Optimal Row-Column Designs for Two Treatments", David Caughran and Nizam Uddin, Department of Mathematics at TTU, Tech. Report No. 2000-2, March 2000, downloadable file, 99KB
• "On the Invertibility of Some Operators on Hilbert Spaces", Ramesh Garimella, Volodymyr Hrynkiv, and Yung-Way Liu, Department of Mathmatics at TTU, Tech. Report No. 2000-3, June 2000, downloadable file, 166KB

1999

• "The Role of Logic in the Validation of Mathematical Proofs", Annie Selden and John Selden, Department of Mathematics at TTU, Tech. Report No. 1999-1, February 1999, downloadable file, 171KB
• "On the Separating Ideals of Some Vector-Valued Group Algebras", Ramesh Garimella, Department of Mathematics at TTU, Tech. Report No. 1999-2, February 1999, downloadable file, 132KB
• "On the Cardinalities of Row Spaces of Boolean Matrices", Michael Breen and David Hume, Department of Mathematics at TTU, Tech. Report No. 1999-3, April 1999, downloadable file, 45KB
• "Improving Bipartite Graphs Using Multi-Strategy Simulated Annealing", Michael Breen and Panagiotis K. Linos, Department of Mathematics at TTU, Tech. Report No. 1999-4, April 1999, downloadable file, 59KB
• "Do Calculus Students Eventually Learn to Solve Non-Routine Problems?", Annie Selden, John Selden, Shandy Hauk, and Alice Mason, Department of Mathematics at TTU, Tech. Report No. 1999-5, May 1999, downloadable file, 95KB
• "Tertiary Mathematics Education Eesearch and its Future", Annie Selden and John Selden, Department of Mathematics at TTU, Tech. Report No. 1999-6, August 1999, downloadable file, 126KB
• "Hecke Algebra Representations in Ideals Generated by q-Young Clifford Idempotents", Rafal Ablamowicz and Bertfried Fauser, Department of Mathematics at TTU, Tech. Report No. 1999-7, August 1999, downloadable file, 286KB
• "Perfect binary matroids", Allan Mills, Department of Mathematics at TTU, Tech. Report No. 1999-8, August 1999, downloadable file, 141KB
• "Hecke Algebras, SVD, and Other Computational Examples with Clifford", Rafal Ablamowicz, Department of Mathematics at TTU, Tech. Report No. 1999-9, September 1999, downloadable file, 499KB
• "On the Decomposition of Clifford Algebras of Arbitrary Bilinear form", Rafal Ablamowicz and Bertfried Fauser, Department of Mathematics at TTU, Tech. Report No. 1999-10, November 1999, downloadable file, 334KB