Teaching First. The Mathematics faculty at Carthage has been recruited to be the best possible undergraduate teaching department. Our definition of teaching includes not only classroom teaching, but research advising, career mentoring, and teaching mathematical skills that are useful for a life-long love of learning. Faculty have been hired from top universities, and must show a continued commitment to staying current in their field and to scholarly activity. Our curriculum is computer intensive, using the computer as a tool to learn and discover mathematics.   The Mathematics faculty at Carthage College is dedicated to delivering the highest quality mathematics education to mathematics majors and non-majors alike. 

Faculty

Charlotte J. Chell teaches courses throughout both the mathematics and computing curricula. Her specialty is mathematical logic. She has been honored with the Carthage College Distinguished Teaching Award, and she was the first woman to be awarded the MAA Wisconsin Section Distinguished Teaching Award. She served as the first female chairperson, then Governor, of the Wisconsin section of the MAA. Chell holds a Phi Beta Kappa B.A. degree from St. Olaf College and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. (personal page)
Allen Klingenberg earned his B.A. and M.S. from the University of Michigan, and his Ph.D. from Michigan State University. His specialty is educational statistics. He has mentored numerous students in internship opportunities at local businesses. Klingenberg recently received two grants from NPrime to establish off-campus tutoring opportunities for Carthage students, and a PMET grant from the Mathematical Association of America to improve the mathematics education of future elementary school teachers. He joined the Carthage faculty in 2003. 
Dominic Klyve, Assistant Professor: Dominic is a number theorist whose thesis work is in the area of "explicit inequalities in number theory, and includes theoretical and computational questions concerning the distribution of twin primes." Dominic recently completed his Ph.D. at Dartmouth College. His B.A. in Mathematics and Physics is from Hamline University.
Mark R. Snavely is interested in research in the field of dynamical systems, particularly symbolic dynamics. He has mentored over 200 students in undergraduate research projects in many fields of mathematics. In 2004, he was honored as Carthage's Distinguished Teacher of the Year. Snavely recently completed a term as Chair of the Wisconsin Section of the Mathematical Association of America. He earned a B.A. degree at Grove City College and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at Northwestern University. He has chaired the Mathematics Department at Carthage since 1995. (personal page)
Erik Tou is a number theorist from Dartmouth College where he recently completed his Ph.D. Erik has been selected as a Project NExT Fellow, a prestigious position awarded to a select few young professors in the first few years of their careers. Erik received his B.A. in Mathematics from Gustavus Adolphus College. (personal page)
Aaron Trautwein, Associate Professor of Mathematics, specializes in knot theory, studying the physical and theoretical properties and applications of harmonic knots. Trautwein holds a B.A. from Washington University, St. Louis. There he became a member of Phi Beta Kappa and received a Missouri Lifetime Secondary Teaching Certificate. His M.A. in Math is from St. Louis University. He earned his Ph.D. in Topology from the University of Iowa. He joined the Carthage faculty in 1995, and received the Distinguished Teacher of the Year Award in 2001.
Erlan Wheeler, Associate Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, has a Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he conducted research in the area of combinatorics.  He received his Phi Beta Kappa B.S. degree from Virginia Tech.  Dr. Wheeler also teaches computer science, and has written a graphics package for use with the C++ programming language. This package is available for all students to use. He came to Carthage in 1992 and received the Distinguished Teacher of the Year Award in 1995. (personal page)

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