Cook Professor of Mathematics
Department:
Mathematics and Computer Science
Phone: 706.290.2677
Fax: 706.238.7849
Location: McAllister Hall 337A
Email: rtaylor@berry.edu
Dr. Ron Taylor is the Cook Professor of Mathematics and recipient of the 2018 MAA Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics. He teaches courses at all levels of the math curriculum including calculus, proof structures and knot theory. His does research in a variety of areas, often with Berry College students. He is the coauthor of the 2022 Beckenbach Prize winning MAA textbook "A TeXas Style Introduction to Proof" and "Tangled Tangles" which was selected for the 2018 edition of "The Best Writing on Mathematics" published by Princeton University Press.
Education
- B.S. and B.A., Concord College
- M.M., Winthrop University
- Ph.D., Bowling Green State University
Teaching Interests
- Math and Origami
- Calculus
- Introduction to Proof
- Abstract Algebra
- Real Analysis
- Knot Theory
Research Interests
- Knot Theory (study of closed curves in three dimensions)
- Graph Theory (model pairwise relations between objects)
- Functional Analysis & Operator Theory
- Number Theory
- Symbolic Logic
- Recreational Mathematics