last change Feb 4, 2010

Tom Kunkle

Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics
College of Charleston
Charleston, SC

Contact information

(843) 953-5921 (office)
(843) 953-1410 (fax)

Mailing address for US Postal Service: Mathematics Department Robert Scott Small, Room 339 College of Charleston Charleston, SC 29424

Mailing address for private couriers: Mathematics Department Robert Scott Small, Room 339 175 Calhoun Street Charleston, SC 29401-3519

Office: RS Small, Room 301

Spring 2010 Teaching Schedule

Spring 2010 Office Hours

Class Materials

Syllabus for Math 104, Spring 2008

Syllabus for Math 120, Spring 2009

Syllabus for Math 203, Fall 2009

Syllabus for Math 220, Spring 2008

Syllabus for Math 221, Spring 2005

Interest (MATH 103 Contemporary Mathematics with Applications)

Additional homework problems (MATH 111 Precalculus)

Writing Subspace Proofs (MATH 203 Linear Algebra)

Euler's Formula (MATH 220 Calculus II)

Preprints

Favard's Interpolation Problem in One and Several Variables, Const. Approx., 18 (2002) 467-478, available in PostScript (183 KB) or PDF (179 KB)

Characterizations of multivariate differences and associated exponential splines (298 KB), J. Approx. Theory, 105 (2000) 19-48.

Figure from
Exponential box-like splines on nonuniform grids (362 KB), Const. Approx., 15 (1999) 311-336.

You can read more about these splines in
Box-like splines with nonuniform stepsize (155 KB), in ``Approximation Theory VIII, Vol.\ 1: Approximation and Interpolation,'' C.K. Chui and L.L Schumaker, eds., World Scientific Publishing Co., 1995, 303-308. (The above paper in .dvi form)

Figure from
Multivariate differences, polynomials, and splines (369 KB), J. Approx. Theory, 84 (1996) 290-314.

Using quasi-interpolants in a result of Favard (85K), in ``Approximation and Computation,'' R.V.M. Zahar, ed., ISNM 119, Birkh\"auser Verlag, Basel-Boston-Berlin, 1994, 353-357.

Figure from
Rearrangements of conditionally integrable functions, (329K) in ``Approximation, Probability, and Related Fields,'' G. Anastassiou and S.T. Rachev, eds., Plenum Press, 1994.

Lagrange interpolation on a lattice: bounding derivatives by divided differences, J. Approx. Theory 71 (1992), 94--103. (Reprints available by request only.)

With Dinesh Sarvate: On ternary designs with a specified number of blocks with repeated elements (151K), Ars Combin., 40 (1995), 129-142. (The above paper in .dvi form)

With Dinesh Sarvate: Balanced part ternary designs: some new results (156K), J. Combin. Math. Combin. Comput., 22 (1996), 3-11. (The above paper in .dvi form)

With Dinesh Sarvate: Balanced (Part) Ternary Designs (98K), in ``Handbook of Combinatorial Designs,'' J. Dinitz, C. J. Colbourn, ed.s, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1996, pp. 233-238. (The above paper in .dvi form)