Kurt Ludwick, Ph.D. - Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics & Computer Science
Salisbury University - Salisbury, MD

I joined the SU faculty in 2001 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics & Computer Science.  In 2007, I was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor.

In my previous life as a graduate student, I graduated from Temple University in Philadelphia, PA in 2001 with a Ph.D. in Mathematics. Prior to that, I received an M.A. in Mathematics (also from Temple University) in May, 1997. Prior to prior to that, I graduated from Penn State University in May, 1994, with a B.S. in Mathematics.

My primary mathematical interests are number theory and combinatorics.  My dissertation ("The Survival of Modularity Under Congruence Restrictions") dealt with modular forms, which are complex-valued functions with special properties which make them useful in analytic number theory.

I served as co-chair of the Eastern Shore High School Mathematics Competition from 2001-2011, and I am still actively involved in this event. I was the Faculty Senate's webmaster for three years (2009-2012). Also, I have served as the coordinator of the department's Math 155 common final exam, and as the director of the Math/CS Tutoring Program.

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I'll wrap this up with a few of my favorite math-related quotes and one-liners. Enjoy!

  • "If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't." - Emerson M. Pugh
     
  • "Life is an even-numbered problem."
      -- Dr. E. Lee May, Jr. 
     
  • "A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems."
     -- Paul Erdös

     
  • ``Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer.
     Art is all the rest.''
    -- Donald E. Knuth
     
  • "Everything I say is a lie. Except that. And that. And that. And that. And that. And that. And that. And that."  -- Peter Griffin ("Family Guy")
     
  • An engineer thinks that his equations are an approximation to reality. A physicist thinks reality is an approximation to his equations. A mathematician doesn't care. 
     
  • The most important thing to remember about statistics is that 79.2535% of them are just made up out of thin air.

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