Matthew A. Pons
Professor of Mathematics, Chairperson, Department of Mathematics and Actuarial Science, Marie & Bernice Gantzert Professor in the Liberal Arts & Sciences
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mapons@noctrl.edu
Matthew A. Pons teaches a variety of courses in the Department of Mathematics and Actuarial Science and serves as the department chair. Matthew was a Project NExT (New Experiences in Teaching) Fellow in 2008-2009. In 2011 he received the Clarence F. Dissinger award for outstanding teaching and leadership by a junior faculty member and in 2015 he received the Clarence F. Dissinger award for faculty scholarship. He authored the text Real Analysis for the Undergraduate with Springer Science + Business Media in 2014. More recently, he coedited the collection Living Proof: Stories of Resilience Along the Mathematical Journey, with Allison K. Henrich, Emille D. Lawrence, and David G. Taylor, which was awarded the Euler Book Prize from the Mathematical Association of America in 2022. In 2022, Matthew was named the Marie and Bernice Gantzert Professor in the Liberal Arts and Sciences at North Central. Matthew currently serves as the deputy editor for MAA FOCUS, the news magazine of the Mathematical Association of America.
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Spectra of composition operators on the Dirichlet space induced by full-maps of the disk, submitted.
Composition-differentiation operators on the Dirichlet space, with Robert F. Allen and Katherine C. Heller, J. Math. Anal. Appl., to appear.
Spectra of composition operators on weighted Bergman spaces, Acta. Sci. Math. (Szeged), 85 (2019), 539-560.
Isometric composition operators on the analytic Besov space, with Robert F. Allen and Katherine C. Heller, J. Math. Annal. Appl., 414 (2014), 414-423
The spectrum of a composition operator and Calderon's complex interpolation, Operator Theory: Advances and Applications, 202 (2010), 451-467.
Courses Taught
FYE 100: First Year Experience
HON 200: What is Truth
MATH 120: Mathematics for the Liberal Arts
MATH 151, 152, 253: Calculus I, II, and III
MATH 300: Linear Algebra
MATH 315: Differential Equations
MATH 320: Complex Variables
MATH 390: Research Methods in Mathematics
MATH 461, 462: Real Analysis I and II
MATH 490: Seminar in Advanced Mathematics