Pamela B. Pierce

Professor of Mathematics

Department Chairperson

EDUCATION

• B.A. Amherst College 1985
• M.Ed. University of Massachusetts 1986
• M.S., Ph.D. Syracuse University 1988, 1994

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Functions of Generalized Bounded Variation
• Convergence of Fourier Series
• Undergraduate Mathematics Education
• The Preparation of Pre-service Teachers

RECENT PUBLICATONS

• The Circle Squaring Problem Decomposed (with John Ramsay, Hannah Roberts*, Nancy Tinoza*, Jeffrey Willert*, and Wenyuan Wu*) Math Horizons, November 2009. *undergraduate co-authors
• A New Sequence Based on Translations-Only Dissections of Regular 2n-gons (with J. Willert* and W. Wu*), Proceedings of the Midstates Conference for Undergraduate Research in Computer Science and Mathematics, The College of Wooster, November 2008, pp. 27-36. *undergraduate co-authors
• Sequence A141292 in The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (with J. Willert* and W. Wu*), published electronically at http://www.research.att.com/~njas/sequences/" by N.J.A. Sloane (2008). *undergraduate co-authors
• On Some High Indices Theorems III (with M. Schramm and D. Waterman) Analysis, 28 (2008), pp. 367-373.
• Making the Mathematics Major Work for the Under-Prepared Student (with B. Gold, J. Ramsay, and L. Taalman), MAA Focus, Vol. 28, Issue 4, April 2008.
• The Circle Squaring Problem Dissected (with M. Rhollans* and J. Willert*), Proceedings of the Midstates Conference for Undergraduate Research in Computer Science and Mathematics, John Carroll University, November 2007, pp. 27-36. *undergraduate co-authors
• Some Generalizations of the Notion of Bounded Variation (with D. Velleman), American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 13, No. 10, December 2006.
• Don't Bet on Gambling to Strike it Rich - a column for the Wooster Daily Record, June 2004.
• On the Invariance of the Classes ΦBV, ΛBV Under Composition (with D. Waterman), Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 132 (2004), pp. 755-760.
• A Δ₂ Equivalent Condition (with D. Waterman), Real Analysis Exchange, 26 (2001), pp. 651-655.
• Bounded Variation in the Mean (with D. Waterman), Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 128 (2000), pp. 2593-2596.
• Regulated Functions Whose Fourier Series Converge for Every Change of Variable (with D. Waterman), Journal of Mathematical Analysis and its Applications, 214 (1997), pp. 264-282.

OTHER INTERESTS

• Swimming
• Music
• Spending time with my family

CONTACT

Professor Pamela Pierce
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Taylor Hall 314
The College of Wooster
Wooster OH 44691
Phone: 330 263 2389
Fax: 330 263 2516
PPierce@Wooster.edu