Vaughn Climenhaga

Graduate Assistant
The Pennsylvania State University

Department of Mathematics

Sublevel sets on the vertical torus

Here you can find the course homepages for all the different classes I've taught.  Right now, it's a fairly short list -- in Spring 2006 I taught Math 26, which is an introduction to plane trigonometry, and that summer I taught Math 35, which is entitled "A Survey of Mathematical Thought".  Meaning that I talked for six weeks about all manner of random math puzzles, problems, etc., starting with a couple weeks on probability and its applications to games of chance and whatnot.  Followed up by a field trip to Vegas... hmm, couldn't get the university to fund that one, surprisingly enough.

I spent the next two years as the TA for Math 35, with the exception of Fall 2007, when I was the TA for a MASS course taught by Anatole Katok on the subject of surfaces.  After some extensive editing of the original course notes from that experience, there's now a book forthcoming.

Slicing open a Klein bottle to get a Moebius strip