Dr. Bruce Torrence
Publications
- Research Papers
- Bordism Classes of Vector Bundles Over Real Projective Spaces, Proceedings
of the American Mathematical Society, 118 (1993), 963-969.
- Involutions Fixing the Disjoint Union of Odd-Dimensional Projective Spaces
(with D. Hou), Canadian Mathematical Bulletin, 37 (1994), 66-74.
- Involutions Fixing the Disjoint Union of Copies of Even Projective Space
(with D. Hou), Acta Mathematica Sinica, New Series, 12, No. 2 (1996),
162-166.
- The Number of Edges in a Subgraph of a Hamming Graph (with R. Squire
and A. Vogt), Applied Math Letters, 14, (2001), 701-705.
- The Case of the Missing Case, the Completion of a Proof by Ronald Graham
(with Julie Jones, a senior mathematics major), Pi Mu Epsilon Journal, Vol.
10, No. 2 (1999), 772-778.
- If Pascal had a Computer - A do-it-yourself Guide to the Problem of the
Points and the Arithmetical Triangle (with Thaddeus Selden, a senior mathematics
and physics major), Math Horizons, November, 2001, 15-20.
- Traffic in the Center of the Universe (with Tonya Kim and Nancy Nichols
- both senior mathematics majors), UMAP Journal, 22, No. 2 (2001),
97-110.
- The Locker Problem (with Stan Wagon), Crux Mathematicorum, 33 (4),
May 2007, 232-236.
- Real Polynomials, Complex Roots, and Enchanting Ellipses (with Liza Lawson, a
senior mathematics major), Pi Mu Epsilon Journal 12 No. 9 (2008), 541-546.
- Keeping Dry - The Mathematics of Running in the Rain (with Dan Kalman),
(to appear in Mathematics Magazine, Nov. 2009).
- The Easiest Lights Out Games,
(accepted for publication in The College Mathematics Journal).
- Classroom Notes Column in Mathematica in Education and Research (2005 - 2007)
- Taylor polynomials in several variables, Mathematica in Education and Research,
10, No. 1 (2005), 74-77.
- Roots of polynomials and their derivatives, Mathematica in Education and Research,
10, No. 2 (2005), 71-80.
- Combining 3D graphics, Mathematica in Education and Research,
10, No. 3 (2005), 72-82.
- Displaying numbers, Mathematica in Education and Research,
10, No. 4 (2005), 72-80.
- Extending the locker problem, Mathematica in Education and Research,
11, No. 1 (2006), 83-95.
- DNA sequence alignment Ð Part I, Mathematica in Education and Research,
11, No. 2 (2006), 211-222.
- DNA sequence alignment Ð Part II, Mathematica in Education and Research,
11, No. 3 (2006), 338-369.
- A nod to the traveling salesman, Mathematica in Education and Research,
11, No. 4 (2006), 455-469.
- A nod to the traveling salesman, Mathematica in Education and Research,
12, No. 1 (2007), 72-82.
- Fun with continued fractions, Mathematica in Education and Research,
12, No. 2 (2007), 136-148.
- Paclets, Mathematica in Education and Research,
12, No. 3 (2007), 213-217.
- Conics and Cubics, Mathematica in Education and Research,
12, No. 4 (2007), 305-317.