Rate My Professor Andrew Leahy

Leahy's research centers on the historical development of mathematical ideas in calculus—examining pre-Leibniz and Newton techniques for tangents and curve rectification—and modern algebra, particularly 19th-century invariant theory's role in commutative ring theory and its modern revivals by Mumford and Rota. Key refereed publications include “The Method of Archimedes in the Seventeenth Century” (The American Mathematical Monthly, 2018), “A Fourth Century Theorem for Twenty-First Century Calculus” (The College Mathematics Journal, 2018), “William Neile's Contribution to Calculus” (The College Mathematics Journal, 2016), “Evangelista Torricelli and the 'Common Bond of Truth' in Greek Mathematics” (Mathematics Magazine, 2014), and “A Classification of Multiplicity Free Representations” (Journal of Lie Theory, 1998). He has contributed translations and articles to MAA Convergence, such as on Torricelli's Quadratura Parabolae (2017). Leahy has received the Philip Green Wright-Lombard College Prize for Distinguished Teaching (2003), Illinois Section MAA Distinguished Service Award (2009), and ACM FaCE Grant (2017), among others including NSF grants as co-PI. He teaches functions, calculus, differential equations, mathematical statistics, analysis, and history of mathematics, and has delivered numerous presentations at MathFest, ISMAA, and Midwest History of Mathematics Conference on early modern mathematics topics.