David Schmitz
Professor of Mathematics; Coordinator of Actuarial Science Program
Contact +1 630 637 5232
djschmitz@noctrl.edu
Office Location
WSC 350
David J. Schmitz, Ph.D. has been a member of the Department of Mathematics and Actuarial Science at North Central since 2001. He teaches a wide variety of theoretical and applied mathematics courses, and enjoys working with undergraduates to solve math journal problems and to conduct research. David performs with the college's Symphony Orchestra and is an avid square dancer.
Selected Scholarship
(with Katherine Gallagher) "Inverse Ambiguous Functions on Some Finite Non-abelian Groups", Aequationes Mathematicae, 92 (2018), 963 - 973.
"Inverse Ambiguous Functions on Fields", Aequationes Mathematicae, 91 (2017), 373 - 389.
“Endomorphism Rings of Almost Full Formal Groups”, New York Journal of Mathematics, Vol 12 (2006), 219 – 233.
“Canonical and Filling Subgroups of Formal Groups”, New York Journal of Mathematics, Vol 12 (2006), 235 – 247.
(with Sadman Rahman and Anthony Kindness) "Continuous Inverse Ambiguous Functions on Lie Groups", Aequationes Mathematicae, 99, 1357–1369 (2025)
Courses Taught
Calculus I, II, III
MATH 265: Theory of Interest
MATH 280: Nature of Proof in Mathematics
MATH 305: College Geometry
MATH 320: Complex Variables
ECON 355: Mathematical Economics
MATH 390: Research Methods
MATH 421, 422: Abstract Algebra I, II
MATH 423: Elementary Number Theory
MATH 461: Real Analysis
MATH 473: Topology