Tanya Leise's Home Page

Academics

I am an Assistant Professor in the Mathematics Department at Amherst College.

Spring 2012 Courses

Fall 2012 Courses

Email address	tleise at amherst.edu
Web address	http://www.amherst.edu/~tleise
Office	SMudd 503
Office phone	(413)542-5411
Office hours	Any time my door is open
Campus mailbox	2239
Mailing address	Mathematics Department Amherst College Amherst, MA 01002

Capillary Surfaces

My husband Andrew Cohen is an associate professor of psychology at UMass-Amherst.

My daughter Adira was born the summer of 2001. She can talk up a storm if she's in the mood, and she loves math and animals.

The picture on the left is Adira at the North Carolina Zoo. The picture on the right shows the three of us along with Bonnie, our dog.

The Onion: hilarious parody of the news. A must-read.
Manjul Bhargava: An Artist of Music and Math
Babbage's Difference Engine No. 2, built over a century after his death
Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013
Women, girls, and math (Science Friday radio broadcast)
Devlin's angle: June 2010 column discusses how traditional methods of math instruction lead people to believe that math is a set of skills and memorized formulas rather than a powerful way of thinking about and then solving problems