Andrew Rechnitzer's Homepage

My position:

• I am a Professor in the Mathematics Department at the University of British Columbia.

Contact information

Discrete Mathematics Seminar

• The UBC Discrete Mathematics Seminar.

Research interests

• Random knotting - see my page of minimal embeddings of knots.
• The combinatorics of lattice animals, polyominoes and self-avoiding walks.
• Exact solutions, series expansions and simulations of such objects.
• The relationships between these objects and chemical and physical models.
• Kettle arithmetic.

Publications

CLP textbook sequence

Current teaching:

Previous teaching:

• Semester 1 2018-2019: Mathematics 220 - Mathematical Proof
• Semester 2 2017-2018: Mathematics 101 - Integral Calculus with Physical Applications
• Semester 1 2015-2017: Mathematics 100 & 180 - Differential Calculus with Physical Applications
• Semester 1 2015-2016: Mathematics 100 & 180 - Differential Calculus with Physical Applications
• Semester 1 2014-2015: Mathematics 100 & 180 - Differential Calculus with Physical Applications
• Semester 2 2014-2015: Mathematics 220 - Mathematical Proof
• Semester 2 2013-2014: Mathematics 220 - Mathematical Proof
• Semester 1 2012-2013: Mathematics 104 & 184 - Differential Calculus with Applications to Commerce and Social Sciences
• Semester 2 2011-2012: Mathematics 220 - Mathematical Proof
• Semester 1 2011-2012: Mathematics 180 - Differential Calculus with Physical Applications
• Semester 2 2010-2011: Math 101 Integral Calculus with Applications to Physical Sciences and Engineering
  
• Semester 1 2010-2011: Mathematics 220 - Mathematical Proof
• Semester 2 2009-2010: Mathematics 610E - Topics in pure mathematics (analytic combinatorics)
• Semester 1 2009-2010: Mathematics 180 - Differential Calculus with Physical Applications
• Semester 1 2009-2010: Mathematics 220 - Mathematical Proof
• Summer 2008-2009: Mathematics 340: Introduction to Linear Programming
• Semester 2 2008-2009: Mathematics 220 - Mathematical Proof
• Semester 2 2007-2008: Mathematics 220: Mathematical Proof
• Semester 1 2007-2008: Mathematics 340: Introduction to Linear Programming
• Semester 2 2006: Math 101 Integral Calculus with Applications to Physical Sciences and Engineering
  

I previously taught at the University of Melbourne:

• Semester 2 2005: 620-143 Applied Mathematics
• Semester 1 2005: 620-151 Introduction to biomedical mathematics
• Semester 1 2004: 620-151 Introduction to biomedical mathematics
• Semester 1 2003: 620-341 Dynamical systems and chaos

At Lake Louise in the Rockies.