Math in the News
Mathematics Professor's Publications Add Up
Illinois Wesleyan University News recently published a profile of mathematics professor Tian-Xiao He, who recently reached his 100th article published in a peer-reviewed mathematics journal.
Wesleyan News reports that He has written or co-written more than 100 published papers and five books since his graduate school days in the 1980s. His research interests include approximation theory, numerical analysis, wavelet analysis, multivariate splines, number theory, theory of functions, enumerative combinatorics, and combinatorial analysis.
“I think my research experience helps my teaching a lot,” He said in the article. “Teaching math is basically teaching how to think about math creatively, such as raising questions and finding ways to solve them, which is exactly what we need in research.”
According to Wesleyan, his undergraduate course on wavelet analysis at Illinois Wesleyan was among the first at any college or university.