Marvin Littman
Contact Information
Phone: 914-606-8560
Office location: Tech Building / Rm #122A
Email: marvin.littman@sunywcc.edu
Title(s): Professor
Department/Division: Mathematics
Degree Information:
- M.S., Applied Mathematics, Montclair State University
Courses Taught:
- Geometry
- Calculus I, II, III
- Differential Equations
Honors and Awards:
- SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2012
Publications and Presentations:
Publication:
- Approaching Infinity (a book on the mathematics in rabbinical literature) 1990
Presentations: Given at College Math Events, the WCC Math Club, and High Schools
- 2015 – Applications of Spherical Trigonometry to Geodesy and Astronomy
- 2014 – A History of Snell’s Law on the Refraction of Light from Ancient to Modern Times
- 2013 – What Are the Hyperbolic Functions?
- 2012 – The Basel Problem
- 2011 – Some Surprises in the Mathematics of Gravity
- 2010 – Kepler’s Second Law of Planetary Motion: A Vector Calculus Approach
- 2009 – Mathematics of the Special Theory of Relativity — e = mc 2
- 2008 – Mathematics of Voting
- 2007 – Paradoxes of Infinity