Alexander White Associate Professor of Mathematics Office: Math/CS 573 Phone: 512-245-3429 Fax: 512-245-3425 Email: aw22@txstate.edu

Research Interests:
Educational Assessment, Understanding of Graphs and Functions in K-16, Mathematical Finance.

Dr. White has research interests in mathematics education, statistics and mathematical finance. In mathematics education he has authored several papers concerning the ability of students entering calculus to visualize functions and work with graphs. He has worked on application of statistical models to assessment of educational systems in Central America. His interests in mathematical finance are related to the probabilistic analysis of automated investment algorithms.

Selected Publications

• A. White and F. Van Dyke. A Tool to Use the First Day of Calculus. Primus, September (2004), pp. 213-229.
• A. White and F. Van Dyke. Making Graphs Count. Mathematics Teaching, September (2004), pp. 42 - 45.
• A. White and F. Van Dyke. Examining Students Reluctance to Use Graphs. Mathematics Teacher, September Vol. 98 (2004), p. 110.
• A. White and W.D. Kaigh. Total time on test function orthogonal components and tests of exponentiality, Proceedings of the 38th Conference on the Design of Experiments in Army Research Development and Testing, (1993). pp. 65 - 86.
• A. White, R. LePage, K. Podgorski, and M. Ryznar. Bootstrapping Signs and Permutations for Regression with Heavy Tails: A Seamless Resampling, chapter in A practical guide to heavy tails. (1998) 339--358, Birkhauser Boston, Boston, MA.