Crista Arangala

Crista Arangala (née Crista Lynn Coles) is an American mathematician and textbook author, specializing in numerical analysis. She is a professor of mathematics and chair of the department of mathematics and statistics at Elon University,^[1] and a Fulbright Scholar.

Education

Arangala graduated from Allegheny College in 1993.^[1][2] She earned her Ph.D. in 2000 from the University of Cincinnati, with a dissertation on Numerical Identification of Parameters in Inverse Heat Conduction and Inverse Euler Bernoulli Beam Theory supervised by Diego Antonio Murio.^[1][3]

International work

Arangala has regularly taken her Elon mathematics classes to India and Sri Lanka, where they have participated in elementary-school mathematics education.^[4][5][6] In 2013–2014 she was a Fulbright Scholar in Sri Lanka.^[4][7]

Books

Arangala's books include:

• Arangala, Crista (2014). Exploring Linear Algebra : Labs and Projects with Mathematica ®. Hoboken: CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-4822-4150-1. OCLC 908079421.^[8]
• Arangala, Crista (2017). Exploring calculus : labs and projects with Mathematica. Karen A. Yokley. Boca Raton. ISBN 978-1-4987-7104-7. OCLC 954480489.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Arangala, Crista (2017). Mathematical modeling : branching beyond calculus. Nick Luke, Karen A. Yokley. Boca Raton. ISBN 978-1-315-12064-5. OCLC 1021174066.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Arangala, Crista (2019). Exploring linear algebra : labs and projects with Matlab. Boca Raton. ISBN 978-1-351-66407-3. OCLC 1089729073.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)^[9]