Technical Reports

The Department began publishing its Technical Reports series during the 1998/1999 academic year. The Reports are intended as an internal preprint series to stimulate faculty and student research and publications. It is expected that papers published in the series may undergo some modifications before appearing in a professional journal. Dr. Allan Mills, Interim Chair of the Department, is the Editor of the Reports.

Guidelines for the Authors

TTU mathematics faculty and students should submit to the Editor one printed copy of the paper along with a diskette containing .tex and .dvi files along with all macros and picture files needed to process the .tex file. It is preferred that papers be submitted in LaTeX2e using \documentclass{article} style. Submission in AMS-TeX is also possible. For more information regarding the technical aspects please contact Vickie Mayberry.

Downloading

The following Technical Reports have been published and are available for downloading.

• "Teaching Proving by Coordinating Aspects of Proofs with Students' Abilities¹", Annie and John Selden, New Mexico State University, Tech. Report No. 2007-2, October 2007, downloadable file, 421KB,.pdf
  
• "Overcoming Students' Difficulties in Learning to Understand and Construct Proofs", Annie and John Selden, New Mexico State University, Tech. Report No. 2007-1, August 2007, downloadable file, 148KB,.pdf

• "On the Parallel Lines for Nondegenerate Conics", Rafal Ablamowicz, Department of Mathematics TTU and Jane Liu, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering TTU, Tech. Report No. 2006-1, January 2006, downloadable file, 714KB,.pdf

2004

• "Consciousness in Mathematical Problem Solving: The Focus, the Fringe, and Non-Sensory Perception", John Selden, Department of Mathematical Sciences at New Mexico State Univ. and Annie Selden, Department of Mathematics TTU & Department of Mathematical Sciences New Mexico State University, Tech. Report No. 2004-1, April  2004, downloadable file, 163KB,.pdf
• "A Partial Characterization of the Cocircuits of a Splitting Matroid", Allan Mills, Department of Mathematics TTU, Tech. Report No. 2004-2, May  2004, downloadable file, 112KB,.pdf
• "The Affinity of a Permutation of a Finite Vector Space", W. Edwin Clark, Department of Mathematics University of South Florida, Xiang-Dong Hou, Department of Mathematics University of South Florida, and Alec Mihailovs, Department of Mathematics TTU, Tech. Report No. 2004-3, July 2004, downloadable file, 283KB,.pdf
• "More Than a Seat: Numbers and Symbols in the Cameroon Grasslands", Andrzej Gutek, Department of Mathematics TTU, Tech. Report No. 2004-4, July 2004, downloadable file, 198KB,.pdf
• "Writing DLL in Assembler for External Calling in Maple", Alec Mihailovs, Department of Mathematics TTU, Tech. Report No. 2004-5, July 2004, downloadable file, 67KB,.pdf
• "A Short Note on Strassen's theorem", Motoya Machida, Department of Mathematics TTU, Tech. Report No. 2004-6, October 2004, downloadable file, 168KB,.pdf

• "A Graduate Student's Guide to LATEX and AMS-LATEX", Rafal Ablamowicz, Department of Mathematics at TTU, Tech. Report No. 2003-1, February 2003, downloadable file, 387KB,.pdf
• "Decadal Decline (1992-2002) of Loggerhead Shrikes on Christmas Bird Counts in Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee", Stephen J. Stedman, Department of English at TTU, and Michael Allen, Department of Mathematics at TTU, Tech. Report No. 2003-2, August 2003, downloadable file, 736KB,.pdf
• "Errors and Misconceptions in College Level Theorem Proving", Annie Selden and John Selden, Department of  Mathematics at TTU, Tech Report No. 2003-3, August 2003,downloadable file, 92KB,.pdf
• "A Generalization of a Graph Result of Halin and Jung", Galen E. Turner, III, Mathematics and Statistics, Louisiana Tech University, and Allan D. Mills, Department of Mathematics at TTU, Tech. Report No. 2003-4, September 2003, downloadable file, 59KB,.pdf
• "Set-Valued Duality for Finite-State Markov Chains", James Allen Fill, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, and Motoya Machida, Department of Mathematics at TTU, Tech. Report No. 2003-5, October 2003, downloadable file, 288KB,.pdf
• "Idempotents of Clifford Algebras", Rafal Ablamowicz, Department of Mathematics at TTU, B. Fauser, Fachbereich Physik, Universitat Konstanz, K. Podlaski and J. Rembielinski, Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Lodz, Tech. Report No. 2003-6, October 2003, downloadable file, 147KB,.pdf

• "Tables of Integrals, the Cosecant Function, and Consistency", Brian O'Connor, Department of Mathematics at TTU, Tech. Report No. 2002-1, March 2002, downloadable file, 526KB,.pdf
• "Two Research Traditions Separated by a Common Subject:  Mathematics and Mathematics Education", Annie Selden, Department of Mathematics at TTU, Tech. Report No. 2002-2, August 2002, downloadable file, 107KB,.pdf
• "Mathematics of CLIFFORD - a Maple package for Clifford and Grassmann algebras", Rafal Ablamowicz, Department of Mathematics at TTU, and Bertfried Fauser, Universitat Konstanz, Germany, Tech. Report No. 2002-4, December 2002, downloadable file, 282KB,.pdf  Revised August 2004, downloadable file, 282KB,.pdf
• "Clifford and Grassmann Hopf Algebras via the Bigebra Package for Maple^(R)", Rafal Ablamowicz, Department of Mathematics at TTU, and Bertfried Fauser, Universitat Konstanz, Germany, Tech. Report No. 2002-5, December 2002, downloadable file, 261KB,.pdf  Revised August 2004, downloadable file, 261KB,.pdf

• "The Dense Packing of 13 Congruent Circles in a Circle", Ferenc Fodor, Department of Mathematics at TTU, Tech. Report No. 2001-1, March 2001, downloadable file, 189KB,.pdf
• "Clifford Algebra Space Singularities of Inline Planar Platforms", Michael Baswell and Joe N. Anderson, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Rafal Ablamowicz, Department of Mathematics at TTU, Tech. Report No. 2001-2, April 2001, downloadable file,178KB,.pdf
• "Comparison of Centrality Estimators for Several Distributions", Jamie McCreary, Under the supervision of Dr. Michael Allen, Department of Mathematics at TTU, Tech. Report No. 2001-3, April 2001, downloadable file, 619KB,.pdf
• "Various Estimations of Pi as Demonstrations of the Monte Carlo Method", Jamie McCreary, Under the supervision of Dr. Michael Allen, Department of Mathematics at TTU, Tech Report No. 2001-4, July 2001, downloadable file, 73KB,.pdf

• "Optimal Cylindrical-Block Designs for Correlated Observations", Nizam Uddin, Department of Mathematics at TTU, Tech. Report No. 2000-1, March 2000, downloadable file, 189KB,.pdf
• "On Optimal Row-Column Designs for Two Treatments", David Caughran and Nizam Uddin, Department of Mathematics at TTU, Tech. Report No. 2000-2, March 2000, downloadable file, 99KB, .pdf
• "On the Invertibility of Some Operators on Hilbert Spaces", Ramesh Garimella, Volodymyr Hrynkiv, and Yung-Way Liu, Department of Mathmatics at TTU, Tech. Report No. 2000-3, June 2000,  downloadable file, 166KB, .pdf

• "The Role of Logic in the Validation of Mathematical Proofs", Annie Selden and John Selden, Department of Mathematics at TTU,  Tech. Report No. 1999-1, February 1999, downloadable file, 171KB, .pdf
• "On the Separating Ideals of Some Vector-Valued Group Algebras", Ramesh Garimella, Department of Mathematics at TTU,  Tech. Report No. 1999-2, February 1999, downloadable file, 132KB, .pdf
• "On the Cardinalities of Row Spaces of Boolean Matrices", Michael Breen and David Hume, Department of Mathematics at TTU,  Tech. Report No. 1999-3, April 1999,downloadable file, 45KB, .pdf
• "Improving Bipartite Graphs Using Multi-Strategy Simulated Annealing", Michael Breen and Panagiotis K. Linos, Department of Mathematics at TTU, Tech. Report No. 1999-4, April 1999, downloadable file, 59KB, .pdf
• "Do Calculus Students Eventually Learn to Solve Non-Routine Problems?", Annie Selden, John Selden, Shandy Hauk, and Alice Mason, Department of Mathematics at TTU,  Tech. Report No. 1999-5, May 1999, downloadable file, 95KB, .pdf
• "Tertiary Mathematics Education Eesearch and its Future", Annie Selden and John Selden, Department of Mathematics at TTU, Tech. Report No. 1999-6, August 1999, downloadable file, 126KB, .pdf
• "Hecke Algebra Representations in Ideals Generated by q-Young Clifford Idempotents", Rafal Ablamowicz and Bertfried Fauser, Department of Mathematics at TTU, Tech. Report No. 1999-7, August 1999, downloadable file, 286KB, .pdf
• "Perfect binary matroids", Allan Mills, Department of Mathematics at TTU, Tech. Report No. 1999-8, August 1999, downloadable file, 141KB, .pdf
• "Hecke Algebras, SVD, and Other Computational Examples with Clifford", Rafal Ablamowicz, Department of Mathematics at TTU, Tech. Report No. 1999-9, September 1999, downloadable file, 499KB, .pdf
• "On the Decomposition of Clifford Algebras of Arbitrary Bilinear form", Rafal Ablamowicz and Bertfried Fauser, Department of Mathematics at TTU, Tech. Report No. 1999-10, November 1999, downloadable file, 334KB, .pdf

Last revised: October, 2007/vm