Oscar E. Fernandez

Associate Professor of Mathematics

Wellesley College

Welcome!

I joined the mathematics department at Wellesley College in the fall of 2011. Below is a quick tour of the main items you'll find on this site.

I also maintain another website: surroundedbymath.com. That site is dedicated to my non-research writing, and includes more information about my books, the interactive applets I created for them, and the blog connected to them.

Contact Information:

Department of Mathematics

Wellesley College

(781) 283-3164

ofernand@wellesley.edu

What's On This Site?

Visit the teaching page to find out about the courses I’ve taught, and also explore the interactive demonstrations I've compiled. You may also be interested in the math courses site I created, which contains full courses (videos, lesson notes, etc.).

Learn more about my research in geometric and nonholonomic mechanics, and applied mathematics more generally, and see my research articles on the publications page. (The image on the right is from an article I co-wrote about the quantum mechanics of "nanocars.")

I am the author of Everyday Calculus, The Calculus of Happiness, and Calculus Simplified (all published by Princeton University Press). Visit the books page of this site to learn more about them.

Head to this page to access the various math and non-math presentations I've given over the years.

Visit the media page to watch interviews I have participated in and other media events/collaborations related to my work.