Fernando Q. Gouvêa Carter Professor of Mathematics Colby College Waterville, ME 4901 Office phone number: 207-859-5836 Email: fqgouvea@colby.edu

I work in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Colby College. The links will take you to the department home page and the Colby home page. There's also an official professional profile page.

I am the editor of the Mathematical Association of America's online book review service, MAA Reviews. This is the place to go for mathematics books. All the information you might want, and more.

Spring 2012

This spring I am teaching Elementary Number Theory (MA357) and Real Analysis (MA338). With Andreas Malmendier I am organizing the Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium that happens on Mondays starting at 3:30.

Office Hours for Spring 2012:

• Tuesday between 1:00 and 3:00
• Wednesday between 1:00 and 2:00
• Friday between 1:00 and 2:00
• Or by appointment

Publications

Original	Expanded	Taiwan	Slovenia	Brazil

The Expanded Edition of Math through the Ages came out in January 2004. The original book was adopted as a textbook by many teachers and professors, and we got requests for suggestions of problems and other assignments. This edition, co-published by Oxton House and the Mathematical Association of America, aims to satisfy those requests. It's also prettier and in hardcover. This book was awarded the MAA's Beckenbach Book Prize at the January 2007 Joint Mathematics Meetings.

The latest offshoot from Math through the Ages is Pathways from the Past I, which is a collection of historically-based worksheets that teachers can use to teach numbers, numerals, and arithmetic. The worksheets come with a 64-page teacher's manual that provides historical background and some guidance on how to use this material in class. As the "I" suggests, more worksheets are in the works.

Math through the Ages has been translated into three other languages so far; you can see the covers of those editions above.

P-adic Numbers: the corrected third printing of the second edition of my book p-adic Numbers: An Introduction came out in mid-2003. The book is an introduction to p-adic numbers and p-adic analysis aimed at mathematics undergraduates. It tries to be open up the theory to the reader in a friendly and accessible way.

Check here for (a few) errata, notes, and other comments about the book. I'm hoping to produce a third edition in the next couple of years, so let me know if you have found any errors or have suggestions. One of the plans for the third edition is to include a little more on the history of the p-adic numbers, and maybe something on Witt vectors.

Arithmetic of p-adic Modular Forms was my first book, based on my PhD thesis. It is desperately out-of-date, since the field has progressed a lot since I wrote it in the late 1980s. In particular, nowadays one would want to approach the theory from Coleman's point of view.

I've written a lot of other stuff, of course. Here is the full list.

Material available on the web: This page lists some material I've written and which is available on the web.

Interests: My research interests are:

• History of Mathematics, especially the history of algebra and number theory, and
• Number Theory and Arithmetic Geometry, with a special focus on modular forms and Galois representations.

Recently read and recommended. This mostly deals with non-mathematics books, since the mathematics stuff usually goes into MAA Reviews. It's also wildly out of date.