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American mathematician (born 1969) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Timothy P. Chartier (born 1969)[1] is an American mathematician known for his expertise in sports analytics and bracketology,[2][3][4] for his popular mathematics books, and for the "mime-matics" shows combining mime and mathematics that he and his wife Tanya have staged.[5]
He is Joseph R. Morton Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Davidson College.[6] The National Museum of Mathematics announced him as 2022-23 Distinguished Visiting Professor for the Public Dissemination of Mathematics, in June 2021.
Chartier majored in applied mathematics at Western Michigan University, graduating in 1993, and stayed at Western Michigan for a master's degree in computational mathematics in 1996.[7] He completed a PhD at the University of Colorado Boulder in 2001, with the dissertation Algebraic Multigrid Based on Element Interpolation (AMGe) and Spectral AMGe supervised by Steve McCormick.[8] He has also studied mime, at the Centre du Silence in Colorado, at the Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre in California, and with Marcel Marceau.[9]
After postdoctoral research at the University of Washington, he joined the Davidson College faculty in 2003.[7] As well as his academic work, he is also a frequent consultant on sports analytics for ESPN, NASCAR, the National Basketball Association, and other groups.[10]
Chartier is the author of Math Bytes: Google Bombs, Chocolate-Covered Pi, and Other Cool Bits in Computing (2014),[11] which won the Euler Book Prize in 2020,[12] and of When Life is Linear: From Computer Graphics to Bracketology (2015),[13] which won the Beckenbach Book Prize in 2017.[14]
He is also the author of X Games In Mathematics: Sports Training That Counts! (2020) and the coauthor, with Anne Greenbaum, of Numerical Methods: Design, Analysis, and Computer Implementation of Algorithms (2012).[15]
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