Born and raised in Lochaber, a rural community in eastern Nova Scotia,
I received a B.Sc. in mathematics from St.
Francis Xavier University in 1971 and a Ph.D. through the Department of Mathematical Sciences
at the University of Alberta in 1976.
I am indebted to my thesis supervisor A. T. (Tony) Lau for introducing me to Harmonic Analysis. We had a gathering of the mathematical family of Ed Granirer, Lau's supervisor, in Vancouver on the occasion of Professor Granirer's retirement from UBC. Actually, our mathematical ancestors have established pretty good family traditions in analysis.
My wife, Julia Taylor, is the Coordinator of Research Development for the Capital Health District in Halifax. We have two sons, Paul and Brian. Paul has a BSc from the University of Saskatchewan and completed his PhD in mathematics at the University of Wisconsin in June, 2004 and is now an Assistant Professor at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania. Brian has a BA from the University of Saskatchewan and a Bachelor of Public Relations from Mount Saint Vincent University. He is now a Communications Officer with Service Nova Scotia and Municipal Relations, a department of the Government of Nova Scotia.
We lived in Saskatoon from 1977 until we moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 2003.
| eiπ + 1 = 0 | V - E + F = 2 | ∑ 1/n2 = π2/6 | gcd(a, n) = 1 ==> a φ(n) ≡ 1 mod(n) |
