Frank Farris

I teach in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, at Santa Clara University. From 2001 through 2005, I served as Editor of Mathematics Magazine, an official publication of the Mathematical Association of America. Currently, I serve as chair of the Mathematics/Computer Science Colloquium Series. Please contact me if you are interested in giving a talk or getting on our email list.

Here is a page with some of my favorite computed images.

Some Research Projects with Websites

• The Figure-8 Sphere in 4-space, a talk for TFBCON2003, a conference in honor of the 65th birthday of Tom Banchoff.
• Communications in Visual Mathematics, where my article Vibrating Wallpaper is published in the inaugural volume. (The CVM is now Volume 0 of the new Journal of Online Mathematics, JOMA.)
• Woven Rope Friezes, in Mathematics Magazine, February, 1999.
• Visualizing Complex Functions in the Plane, a complement to my review of Tristan Needham's Visual Complex Analysis in the American Mathematical Monthly.
• My article The Edge of the Universe appeared in the September 2001 issue of Math Horizons and was given the Trevor Evans Award for mathematical exposition. The link on the title will open the article in PDF format. I also have an old site with more pictures about this topic.

Course materials

• Getting started with Maple
• Math 31 Practice for Final Exam
• Math 31 Practice on Lagrange Multipliers
• Math 31 materials about Perpetuities (in PDF format).
• Math 31 materials about Gini index (in PDF format).
• Math 31 Income Project (in PDF format).

Just for fun: Nine fibers of the Hopf fibration, viewed by stereographic projection. The colors indicate how near that part of the image is to your eye. Does red indicate the closest or the farthest points? Are the rings turning to the right or to the left?

Personal

• Ancestors and family
• Site for a WWII memoir by my father, Ragene A. Farris, called Rally The Pack .
• Memorial site for my sister, Patricia Farris Hennings.
• Flier for a book about Patty's choral career, Take Up the Song.

I still have a few things about wallpaper and computed images posted on an old machine: www-acc.scu.edu. Have a look.

Maintainer: ffarris at scu dot edu
Last changed: 21-Jan-2008