Scott Sutherland's missing home page

Scott Sutherland

Associate Professor of Mathematics
Director of Undergraduate Studies in Mathematics
State University of New York at Stony Brook

Teaching

In Spring 2008, I am teaching MAT331: Mathematical Problem Solving with Computers.
All of my "old" teaching pages, including the MAT331 material, can be found on my teaching archive page.
My notes on Mathematical Problem Solving with Maple, written with Santiago Simanca, can be found here in html, PDF, or PostScript.

Other Stuff

A very introductory paper on cryptography [pdf] (covers substitution ciphers, the Vigenere cipher, one-time pads, the Hill cipher), developed as a professional development workshop given to middle school teachers as part of the MSTP project I am involved in.

Research Related Things

Some of my papers (mostly from the IMS preprint series):
- How to Find All Roots of Complex Polynomials by Newton's Method, (with J. H. Hubbard and D. Schleicher). Inventiones Mathematicae vol. 146 (2001), no.1, pp. 1-33.
- On Brillouin Zones (with M.Peixoto, A.Rocha, and P.Veerman). Communications in Mathematical Physics vol. 212 (2000), no.3, pp. 725-744.
- Further Travels with my Ant (with D. Gale, J. Propp, and S. Troubetzkoy) Mathematical Intelligencer, vol 17, no. 3 (1995), pp 48-56.
- Polynomial Root-Finding Algorithms and Branched Covers. (with Myong-Hi Kim). SIAM Journal of Computing vol. 23 (1994), pages 415-436.
- Bad Polynomials for Newton's Method, in Linear and Complex Analysis Problem Book 3, vol II Eds: V. P. Havin and N.K. Nikolskii, Springer-Verlag 1994.
- Dynamics of Certain Non-Conformal Degree Two Maps on the Plane (with B. Bielefeld, F. Tangerman, and J.J.P. Veerman). Experimental Mathematics vol. 2 (1993), pages 281-300.
You could take a look at something about a mathematical "ant".
or some pictures for the Fibonacci Map and why its Julia set might or might not have positive measure.
maybe just poke around in my ftp directory.

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