Contact Information: Alexander Wilce Department of Mathematical Sciences Susquehanna University email: wilce@susqu.edu; Office phone: 570 372 4468. [For best results, use email!]
Office: Fisher 310. Office hours (Spring 2023): T 2:00-4:00 pm; Th 1:00-3:00 pm (or by appointment)
Research Interests
· Primary: foundations of quantum theory
· Secondary (and mostly as related to the above): functional analysis, ordered sets and lattices, quantum information theory, quantum logic and probability theory, general topology.
Research Interests:
I am also a fan of category theory, measure theory, modal logic, operator algebras, and set theory. I have offered, or can offer, reading courses in any of the above. Interested students should ask!
Biographical Sketch: I come from a family of naturalists. My parents were botanists, my maternal grandfather was an entomologist, and one of my maternal uncles is an ecologist. I’m not sure how it happened, but I ended up pursuing mathematics (and before that, analytic philosophy). I was raised in western Massachusetts, and attended Oberlin College (BA in mathematics, 1983) and the University of Massachusetts (Ph.D. in mathematics, 1989). Prior to joining the faculty at Susquehanna, I held positions at the University of New Hampshire, the University of Pittsburgh/Johnstown, and Juniata College. My wife, Mary Hague, formerly a professor of Government at Juniata, has also been a visiting professor of environmental studies at Bucknell University. We have one son, Griffin Wilce.
Courses for spring 2023
Math 221 – Discrete Structures
Math 411 – Real Analysis
Math 500 — Senior Colloquium
On sabbatical fall 2023 and spring 2024
A Puzzle: Punctuate the following string of words so as to produce a sentence that is both true and grammatical: or means either either or or and.
Another Puzzle: Complete the following: Redact in haste, repent _______.
And another (due to Griffin Wilce): What has two of one and one of eight?