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 Mathematics Department at Colby College. The links will take you to the math home page and the Colby home page. The college has recently started creating official "professional profile" pages. You can see mine here. It has the extra feature of showing what I looked like ages ago.

I am the editor of MAA FOCUS, the newsmagazine of the Mathematical Association of America. I also run the MAA's online book review service, MAA Reviews.

Fall 2009

I'm teaching three courses this semester: Series and Multivariable Calculus (MA122), Linear Algebra (MA253), and Abstract Algebra (MA333).

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.

There have been three translations into other languages so far, whose covers you can see 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.

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 It is desperately out-of-date, since the field has progressed a lot since I wrote it in the late 1980s, but there still seems to be some interest in it. I've heard rumors of it being offered at AbeBooks at outrageous prices. No need; Springer has just reprinted it and given it a spiffy new cover. It is also available online at SpringerLink.com. Now all we need is for someone to revise and update it!

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 not updated as often as I'd like to.