Flath's research has been primarily in algebra with a focus on representation
theory. 

He is also very active in efforts to reform and invigorate calculus teaching, both by the
inclusion of applications that are meaningful to students and by going beyond analytical
techniques to methods based on graphical and numerical input. He has also looked in to
the mathematical needs of biology students. 

EDUCATION: B.S., M.S., Southern Methodist University; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University 

Flath has been teaching at Macalester since 2002.

Journal Articles

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A Combinatorial Problem in the Representation Theory of SL(n) (with J. Towber), Annals of Combinatorics (2000)
 

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Does the Moebius function determine multiplicative arithmetic? (with A. Zulauf), American Mathematical Monthly (1995)
 

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Coherent tensor operators, Lie Algebras, Cohomology and New Applications to Quantum Mechanics, Contemporary Mathematics (1994)
 

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Tensor operators III, some fundamental tensor operator identities (with J. Towber), Journal of Mathematical Physics (1993)
 

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Fractal patterns derived from rational binomial coefficients (with R. Peele), Applications of Fibonacci Numbers (1993)
 

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Books

Calculus (Fifth Edition) (2008)
 

Applied Calculus (2003)
 

ConcepTests for Calculus (2003)
 

Calculus (2001)
 

Multivariable Calculus (2001)
 

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