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  • the application of mathematics, technology, and applied science to the advancement of industry,
  • the enhancement of curricula for STEM education (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics), with an emphasis on historical or pedagogical motivation
  • applied mathematics / engineering consultancy

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Author Profiles:

Assad Ebrahim, (LinkedIn)

Assad is an Applied Mathematician and a Director of Operations and Engineering since 2001 working in the U.S, UK, and EU. He is currently a Director in Supply Chain at Amazon (since 2015) where he leads Transportation Execution and Commercial Development/Strategic Sourcing across 22 European countries/50+ Supply Chain partners, at an annual spend of $4B. Before Amazon he was a Technical Principal in Supply Chain Optimization at Dixons Carphone (2011-15) where he led the design and rollout of improved algorithms for demand forecasting, product replenishment, multi-channel behaviour prediction, and format effectiveness of the UK stores portfolio. On the engineering side, Assad was Director of Engineering & Operations (2001-2010) at BioSonics, Inc., where he led the design, development, and manufacturing of sonar systems and real-time software with applications to automated environmental monitoring, undersea defense, and off-shore aquaculture. He was an R&D Systems Engineer at Autonomous Robotics Ltd. (2010-2011) where he designed navigation and localisation algorithms for unmanned autonomous underwater robotic vehicles in Undersea Oil & Gas Exploration (Video 1, Video 2).

Assad holds a B.A. in Mathematics from Swarthmore College, routinely ranked in the top 3 National Liberal Arts colleges in the US (alongside Amherst and Williams). He holds an M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics specialising in Optimisation & Modelling from University of Washington in Seattle, the #1 applied mathematics program in the U.S. (tied with Princeton).

He is an American citizen and British permanent resident and currently resides in London.

Contact Information: assadebrahim2000 at gmail dot com


Carol Ouellette

Carol is an R&D Engineer and has worked on sensor systems, sensor fusion, and advanced tracking systems at a number of U.S. defense companies, including Raytheon, MIT Lincoln Labs, and AlphaTech (now a part of BAE Systems). She is a guest writer and consulting engineer at MathSciTech.

Carol holds a B.A. in Mathematics and B.Sc. in Engineering from Swarthmore College, routinely ranked in the top 3 National Liberal Arts colleges in the US (alongside Amherst and Williams), where she graduated with Highest Honors (Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa). She holds an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts), ranked in the top 5 universities worldwide.

She is an American citizen and currently resides in Boston.

Contact Information: carol dot ouellette at mathscitech dot org


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Mathematics-History & Philosophy

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  2. Prehistoric Origins of Mathematics
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  4. How Algebra Became Abstract: George Peacock & the Birth of Modern Algebra (England, 1830)
  5. The Rise of Mathematical Logic: from Laws of Thoughts to Foundations for Mathematics
  6. Mathematical Finance and The Rise of the Modern Financial Marketplace
  7. A Course in the Philosophy and Foundations of Mathematics
  8. The Development of Mathematics
  9. Catalysts in the Development of Mathematics
  10. Characteristics of Modern Mathematics

Electronic & Software Engineering

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  2. Coding for Pre-Schoolers - A Turtle Logo in Forth
  3. Experimenting with Microcontrollers - an Arduino development kit for under £12
  4. Making Sensors Talk for under £5, and Voice Controlled Hardware
  5. Computer Programming: A brief survey from the 1940s to the present
  6. Forth, Lisp, & Ruby: languages that make it easy to write your own domain specific language (DSL)
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  8. Building a 13-key pure analog electronic piano.
  9. TinyPhoto: Embedded Graphics and Low-Fat Computing
  10. Computing / Software Toolkits
  11. Assembly Language programming (Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3)
  12. Bare Bones Programming: The C Language

Pure & Applied Mathematics

  1. Fuzzy Classifiers & Quantile Statistics Techniques in Continuous Data Monitoring
  2. LOGIC in a Nutshell: Theory & Applications (including a FORTH simulator and digital circuit design)
  3. Finite Summation of Integer Powers: (Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3)
  4. The Mathematics of Duelling
  5. A Radar Tracking Approach to Data Mining
  6. Analysis of Visitor Statistics: Data Mining in-the-Small
  7. Why Zero Raised to the Zero Power IS One

Technology: Sensors & Intelligent Systems

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  2. Sensors and Systems
  3. Unmanned Autonomous Systems & Networks of Sensors
  4. The Advance of Marine Micro-ROVs

Math Education

  1. Teaching Enriched Mathematics, Part 1
  2. Teaching Enriched Mathematics, Part 2: Levelling Student Success Factors
  3. A Course in the Philosophy and Foundations of Mathematics
  4. Logic, Proof, and Professional Communication: five reflections
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