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John Rickert
Associate Professor of Mathematics

Office: G-215A, Crapo Hall
Phone: (812) 877-8473

Address:
Department of Mathematics
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Terre Haute, IN 47803

e-mail: john.rickert@rose-hulman.edu
My schedule is on-line.         I have pages for several of my classes.

Professional Background


I am an associate professor of mathematics at Rose-Hulman. I grew up in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, graduated from Hawthorne Jr. High, from Wauwatosa West High School in 1980, got my B.A. in Mathematics and Astronomy-Physics from The University of Wisconsin in 1984 and my Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1990.

My research interest is in diophantine equations, most recently dealing with Pell-type equations, and in restricted partition functions.

Coarse Information

During the fall term I am teaching MA111, MA354, and MA496.

I spent academic year 1997-8 on sabbatical at Penn State University (where I had office In McAllister Hall with windows!) did some work on partition functions and used this as a basis to get some ideas for the NSF-REU program that I worked in the summers of 1999 and 2001.
During the summer of 2008 I was at RSI- 2008. My e-mail address there is jrickert@mit.edu.

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Events Schedule for Rose-Hulman students
Contest 2007-2008 2008-2009
Alfred R. Schmidt
Freshman Mathematics Competition		 Tuesday, September 16, 2008 September, 2009
Virginia Tech Math Contest November 1, 2008 Fall, 2009
High School Mathematics Contest Saturday, November 8, 2008 Saturday, November 7, 2009
Putnam Competition Saturday, December 6, 2008 Saturday, December 5, 2009
Mathematical Contest in Modeling February, 2009 Februrary, 2010
Undergraduate Mathematics Conference March 27-28, 2009 March, 2010
Indiana College Math Competition IN MAA meeting, IUPUI,
March 20-21, 2008
 Spring Indiana MAA meeting,
March, 2010
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