David Schmitz
Professor of Mathematics; Coordinator of Actuarial Science Program
Contact +1 630 637 5232
djschmitz@noctrl.edu
Office Location
WSC
David J. Schmitz, Ph.D. has been a member of the mathematics department at North Central since 2001. He teaches a wide variety of mathematics courses, as well as a Verandah Course on the Mathematics of Square Dancing. David also is involved with the music and theatre programs at the college.
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.
Courses Taught
Calculus I, II, III, IV
MTH 280: Nature of Proof in Mathematics
MTH 305: College Geometry
MTH 323: Complex Variables
MTH 375: Problem Solving Seminar
MTH 421, 422: Abstract Algebra
ECN 440: Mathematical Economics
MTH 461: Real Analysis
MTH 473: Topology