Hassan Sedaghat

Professor of Mathematics


Fall 2008:

Courses that I am teaching this semester are listed below; students please check the Blackboard for pertinent information.

          Math 607: Real Analysis I (measure and integration theory)

            Math 507: Analysis I: Math Education (advanced calculus for mathematics education majors)


Visit the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics for information about the department people and programs.


What is mathematics? Unless you are a professional mathematician, it is probably not what you think

A very strange attractor – A curiously shaped “strange attractor” – my unique discovery, for everyone, forever

Discrete Dynamical Systems and Nonlinear Difference Equations: A Gateway (a source for detailed information on, striking images of and lots of links to dynamical systems where time and/or space may be discrete)

Nonlinear Difference Equations: Theory with Applications to Social Science Models (a monograph for students and researchers interested in the latest theoretical results in discrete dynamics and the applications of these results to many mathematical models from various fields of social sciences; see the table of contents, preface, selected text and graphics and more)

Cellular Automata, Dynamics and Complexity: What is missing from "A New Kind of Science" (thoughts on Stephen Wolfram's book and a counterexample to his principle of “computational equivalence”—yes, I have done it, see if you agree)

Spontaneous initiations and terminations of reentry (SITR) patterns – Results of an interdisciplinary project to study patterns of ventricular tachyarrhythmia occurrences with articles published in the Journal of Theoretical Biology and SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics

Reduction of order of difference equations via form symmetries (A new general approach to solving and/or qualitatively analyzing difference equations through reductions of order, semiconjugate factorizations and elimination of form symmetries)


Selected publications


hsedaghat.com


Project Vote Smart (useful election information for voters on candidates seeking political office)


Knowledge is power.Common wisdom

Imagination is more important than knowledge.Albert Einstein, physicist

Minds are like parachutes; they function only when they are open. – James Dewar, chemist

Who would not rather have the fame of Archimedes than that of his conqueror Marcellus? – W.R. Hamilton, mathematician

In the search for truth often “being on firm ground” is an illusion. Open your mind and let your imagination soar! – G.H. Segu, Storyteller


Mailing Address:

Department of Mathematics
Virginia Commonwealth University
1001 West Main Street, Oliver Hall, 2036C
P.O. Box 842014
Richmond, VA 23284-2014

Tel. and voice mail: (804) 828-5806

Email: hsedagha@vcu.edu


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