Teaching

DAVID M. ARNOLD – Teaching

TEACHING INTERESTS

Algebra at all levels, both pure and applied.
Undergraduate discrete mathematics including cryptology, mathematics for computer science, and error-correcting codes.
Mathematics for Liberal Arts Students, including a course for honor students.
Mathematics and Music

COURSES TAUGHT AT BAYLOR UNIVERSITY

Undergraduate:
MTH 1301 – Ideas in Mathematics
MTH 1301H – Ideas in Mathematics for honors students (developed new course in 2009)
MTH 1304 – Pre-Calculus
MTH 1308 – Business Pre-Calculus
MTH 1309 – Business Calculus
MTH 1321 – Calculus I
MTH 2311 – Linear Algebra
MTH 2Vxx – Introduction to Mathematics and Music (developing new course, to be taught in Spring, 2014)
MTH 3312 – Foundations of Combinatorics and Algebra
MTH 4312 – Cryptology (developed new course in 2004)
MTH 4313 – Number Theory (developed new course in 2008)
MTH 4314 – Abstract Algebra
MTH 4316 – Linear Algebra/Matrix Theory
MTH 4329 – Complex Variable
MTH 4V90 – Algebraic Coding Theory

Graduate:
MTH 5V91 – Algebraic Coding Theory
MTH 5V91 – Number Theory
MTH 5310/5311 – Graduate Algebra
MTH 6V13 – Homological Algebra
MTH 6V13 – Elliptic Curves and Applications

DOCTORAL STUDENTS (New Mexico State University)

Randy Walters, Torsion free reflexive modules of finite rank, 1975.
Ulrich Albrecht, Ideal conditions in endomorphism rings, 1982.
Joerg  Stelzer, Ring theoretical criteria for cancellation, 1983.
Wu-Yen Lee, Co-representing graphs for a class of torsion-free abelian groups, 1986.
External examiner: Anya  Elter, Univ.of Essen, Germany, 1996.

MASTER’S STUDENTS (Baylor University)

Meri Hughes, Reed-Solomon Codes, 1995.
David Lauer, Convolutional Codes, 1995.
Rebekah Hahn, Representations of Partially Ordered Sets, 1997.
Amy Tieman, Generalized Interval Systems, 1998.
Matt Shelton, Rijndael: The Advanced Encryption System, 2002.

UNDERGRADUATE HONORS THESIS (Baylor University)

Adam Moran, Congruent Numbers and Elliptic Curves, 2011
Westin King, On the Goldbach Conjecture, 2013

GRADUATE STUDENT MENTOR (Baylor University)

Mentor one Graduate Teaching Assistant each semester.