My name is Sam. I recently completed my PhD in Math at UMass Amherst. I have experience as an instructor and as a teaching assistant in calculus, as well as one-on-one tutoring at the Calculus Help Center. (read more)
...Completed three semesters of Calculus as an undergrad. Used Calculus as an Antenna engineer for a few years. I have tutored Pre-Calc and Calc with at least 10 students, including tutoring AP calculus to prepare for the exam. (read more)
...During my studies at UC Berkeley, I was a Graduate Student Instructor for various courses, ranging from Introduction to Programming to Advanced Numerical Methods for Differential Equations at the undergraduate and graduate levels in both the Mechanical Engineering as well as Mathematics departmen... (read more)
...The "hard drive" back then was a teletype that produced a ticker tape of each line of code. I learned to program with machine code and very much appreciate the advent of modern computing that makes all of this so much easier. My long history with computers has built a solid, self-taught knowledge of setting up and using them effeciently. (read more)