Fernando Gouvêa Associate Professor and Chair Dept. of Math&CS Colby College Waterville, ME 4901 Office phone number: 207-872-3278 Email: fqgouvea@colby.edu

Interests: My research interests are in number theory and arithmetic geometry, with a special focus on modular forms and Galois representations. A secondary interest is the history of mathematics.

As a spectator, rather than as an active player, I also try to keep in touch with lots of other fields in mathematics. Outside mathematics, I am interested in Christian theology (especially New Testament studies), modern science fiction, comic books, and lots of other things. I'm a computer freak too, of the sort that likes OS/2 and UNIX, emacs and LaTeX, and doing "experimental mathematics" on the computer.

Publications: I've written a number of research articles and four books (well, I edited one of the books, and wrote or co-wrote the other three). Here's the full list.

Course Materials

• MA177: In the Fall of 1997 I taught an intro-level course on (some of) the mathematics of the eighteenth century. Many of the course materials are available online.

• Solutions for MA253A Exam (not viewable from outside Colby).

Independent Study Committee

• Recently read and recommended. See also the MAA Online book review section, to which I often contribute.

• I am now the editor of MAA Online, the online newsletter of the Mathematical Association of America. Come and take a look!

Some interesting quotes from various places:

• From Oscar Cullmann's "Immortality of the Soul or Resurrection of the Body", a discussion of the Christian view of death.

• A little snippet from Dorothy L. Sayers' book Are Women Human?

• Another DLS quote, this time on Dante and other great poets.