Leon M. Hall
Professor and Department Chair

Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Missouri University of Science and Technology
(Formerly University of Missouri - Rolla)
Rolla, MO 65409-0020

Office: 202 Rolla Building
Phone: (573) 341-4641
E-mail: lmhall at mst.edu

Schedule for Fall 2009

Math 204 Fall 2009 Policies and Syllabus and Homework.

Math 381 Book

What to Do When the Trisector Comes by Underwood Dudley

LaTeX Math Symbols

Article from the Notices of the AMS on TeX

Undergraduate and Graduate Study in Mathematics at Missouri S & T. You can earn B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Applied Mathematics (B.S. and M.S.) and Mathematics (Ph.D.), as well as a Master of Science for Teachers degree at Missouri S & T. You can focus on Statistics at all levels. The department is of moderate size, upper level classes are small, and you will receive a great deal of individual attention.
Missouri MAA Collegiate Mathematics Competition. The problems and solutions for previous competitions are available, as well as information about the competition.
Missouri Journal of Mathematical Sciences, Associate Editor for Analysis and Differential Equations. Appropriate articles may be sent to me at the address above. See the MJMS page for instructions for contributors, as well as the current issue and back issues of the journal.
Recent (and not so recent) Work

A complete list of my publications in pdf form.
A list of all full-time faculty in the MSM/UMR/S&T Math Department from the founding of the Missouri School of Mines in 1871 through this year. If you know of any corrections or additions, please let me know.
Leon Hall and Stan Wagon, Roads and wheels, Mathematics Magazine 65 (1992), 283-301. This is an interesting paper in itself, and because of this paper, my Erdos number can be shown to be 3, and my Erdos number of the second kind can be shown to be 4.
L. M. Hall and R. P. Roe, An unexpected maximum in a family of rectangles, Mathematics Magazine 71 (1998), 285-291
L.J. Grimm, B.D. Haile, and L.M. Hall, Families of regular solutions of singular systems, Journal of Difference Equations and Applications, 7 (2001), 51-62.
L. M. Hall and I. H. Morgan, Oh Calculus, Oh Calculus, The American Mathematical Monthly, 109 (2002), p. 45.
W. J. Fitzpatrick, L.J. Grimm, and L.M. Hall, Difference equations and Lettenmeyer's theorem, Journal of Difference Equations and Applications 8 (2002), 1053-1060.
Leon M. Hall, A dozen minima for a parabola, The College Mathematics Journal 34 (2003), 139-141.
Leon M. Hall, A forgotten nineteenth century mathematics journal, Missouri Journal of Mathematical Sciences, 16(3) (2004), 159-167. The journal in which the first English translations of Lobachevsky and Bolyai appeared in 1891 was published in Rolla.
Michael Dorff and Leon Hall, Solids in R^n whose area is the derivative of the volume, The College Mathematics Journal 34, (2003), 350-358.
B.D. Haile and L.M. Hall, Polynomial and series solutions of dynamic equations on time scales, Dynamic Systems and Applications 12(1-2), (2003), 149-158.
Leon M. Hall, Special Functions, Lecture notes for Math 483 at Missouri S & T. The notes are available as pdf files all together or chapter by chapter (Ch 1, Ch 2, Ch 3, Ch 4, Ch 5). Here is the table of contents.

Assorted Links (Some of these may no longer work - I have not checked them all lately.)
Exams. Copies of old Math 8 (Calculus I) and Math 204 (Elem. Diff. Eq.) exams are here.

Assorted Quotes
Pure Knowledge	Happiness	Prestige	Abstract Thought	Doing Mathematics	Educational Nonsense
Criticism	Language	The Romans	Fools for Calculus	Pascal on Geometry	Testing
R. A. Heinlein	Programming	Etymology	Basketball	Calculus Time	Why Mathematics?
Practical Use	Baseball	Rules of the Game	Student Resistance	Mathematics and God	Excellence
Memorization in Algebra	P'd Off	Road Rules	Logic and Intuition	The Teacher in Class	Brief Biography
The Research Tribe	Power vs. Love	Curriculum	Practical Problems	Roads	The Two Risks

The home of the Missouri S & T Mathematics and Statistics Department

Then - Rolla Building Pictures and History - Now

Leon Hall / Revised April 2, 2009

Leon M. Hall Professor and Department Chair

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Then - Rolla Building Pictures and History - Now

Leon M. Hall
Professor and Department Chair