James E. Hamblin

Associate Professor of Mathematics
Shippensburg University

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show. The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry. -- Bertrand Russell

Office: MCT 286
Phone: (717) 477-1592
Email: jehamb@ship.edu
Spring 2013 Office Hours:
- M 11-12, 1-2, W 11-12, R 11-12, F 11-12

Curriculum Vitae

Math for Liberal Studies Home Page

College Algebra Video Series

Recent Publications

My textbook Math for Liberal Studies, 2nd Edition, was published in March 2012.
Hamblin, J.; Bryant, L. (2012) The maximal denumerant of a numerical semigroup. Semigroup Forum doi:10.1007/s00233-012-9448-5
Bryant, L.; Hamblin, J.; Jones, L. A variation on the money-changing problem. Am. Math. Mon. 109 (2012) 406-414.
Hamblin, J.; Lewis, M. (2011) Solvable groups satisfying the two-prime hypothesis, II. Algebr. Represent. Theory doi:10.1007/s10468-011-9281-7

Other Recent Activities

I served as the faculty co-chair for the General Education Council, 2011-13.
I am the local coordinator for the Undergraduate Sustainability Experiences in Mathematics (USE Math) week-long workshop to be held July 22 – 26, 2013 on Shippensburg University's campus.
I am the registration coordinator for the Cumberland Valley ESTEEM (Exploring Science, Technology, Engineering, Earth Science, and Mathematics) workshop for middle-school and high-school girls being held on May 17, 2013.
On March 21, 2013, I was invited to the US Military Academy in West Point, New York to give two presentations: one on game theory and sports analysis, and one on the role of abstract algebra courses in undergraduate curricula.

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Computer-Related Projects

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