Timothy P. Chartier (born 1969) is Joseph R. Morton Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at

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, known for his expertise in

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and

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, for his

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books, and for the "mime-matics" shows combining

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and mathematics that he and his wife Tanya have staged. The

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announced him as 2022-23 Distinguished Visiting Professor for the Public Dissemination of Mathematics, in June 2021.

Education and career

Chartier majored in applied mathematics at

Western Michigan University Western Michigan University (Western Michigan, Western or WMU) is a Public university, public research university in Kalamazoo, Michigan. It was initially established as Western State Normal School in 1903 by Governor Aaron T. Bliss for the tr ...

, graduating in 1993, and stayed at Western Michigan for a master's degree in computational mathematics in 1996. He completed a PhD at the

University of Colorado Boulder The University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder, CU, or Colorado) is a public research university in Boulder, Colorado. Founded in 1876, five months before Colorado became a state, it is the flagship university of the University of Colorado s ...

in 2001, with the dissertation ''Algebraic Multigrid Based on Element Interpolation (AMGe) and Spectral AMGe'' supervised by Steve McCormick. He has also studied

, at the Centre du Silence in Colorado, at the

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in California, and with

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. After postdoctoral research at the

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, he joined the Davidson College faculty in 2003. As well as his academic work, he is also a frequent consultant on sports analytics for

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, the

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, and other groups.

Books

Chartier is the author of ''Math Bytes: Google Bombs, Chocolate-Covered Pi, and Other Cool Bits in Computing'' (2014), which won the

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in 2020, and of ''When Life is Linear: From Computer Graphics to Bracketology'' (2015), which won the

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in 2017. He is also the author of ''X Games In Mathematics: Sports Training That Counts!'' (2020) and the coauthor, with Anne Greenbaum, of ''Numerical Methods: Design, Analysis, and Computer Implementation of Algorithms'' (2012).Reviews of ''Numerical Methods'': Octavian Pastravanu, ; William J. Satzer, ''MAA Reviews''

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References

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