Math & Actuarial Science

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