• Current Courses
  
  • Math 203-01 & -02 (Fall 2009)
    
• Letters of Recommendation
• What can I do with a math major?
• What have past GVSU math students done after graduation?
• Why Auto Owner's Insurance loves GVSU math graduates
  
• Math/Stats Club
• GVSU REU
• Paul Fishback's excellent LaTeX resource page
• Online textbooks

• I have recently published a textbook on Differential Equations with Linear Algebra
  
• Undergraduate research projects
• Starting in January 2010, I will be one of two associate editors for the journal PRIMUS
  
• Curriculum vita
• What some students say
• I co-edit the department's annual alumni newsletter
  
• I am also a section officer for the Michigan MAA.  
• My favorite lecture series ...
  

• Phone/Voice Mail:  (616) 331-3384
• Office: C-2-508 MAK
  
• email: boelkinm at gvsu dot edu 
• Department Fax: (616) 331-3120
• Department Phone: (616) 331-2040
• Mailing address:
  Dept. of Mathematics
  A2178 Mackinac Hall
  Grand Valley State University
  Allendale, MI 49401-9403

• A brief biography

It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.

-Albert Einstein

Mathematics is highly condensed thought.

-Uri Treisman

I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.

-William F. Buckley

The university brings out all abilities including incapability.

-Chekov

It's only work if somebody makes you do it.

-Calvin
The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes

Madeline: I'm sorry, who are you again?
Fletch: I'm Frieda's boss.
Madeline: Who's Frieda?
Fletch: My secretary.

GVSU MATH

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