Tyler Jarvis

I am currently chair of the BYU Mathematics Department. For more about me, look at my curriculum vitae

Research

• I am working on some problems in algebraic geometry relating to moduli spaces of curves.
• Most of my publications are available at the arXiv.org preprint server
• A few of my papers that are not available at arXiv.org have been requested by several people. These include the following:
  • T. Jarvis, Compactification of the universal Picard over the moduli of stable curves. Mathematische Zeitschrift 235, 123-149 (2000).
  • T. Jarvis and J. Tanton, The Hairy Ball Theorem via Sperner's Lemma. American Mathematical Monthly, 111, no. 7, 599-603 (2004).
  • T. Jarvis, Class Size and Teacher Effects on Student Achievement and Dropout Rates in University-Level Calculus. Preprint.

Teaching

Fall 2011

Math 371

• The syllabus and homework schedule can be found here:
  • syllabus
  • homework schedule
• The course webpage can be found at https://online.byu.edu/ Log in with your Route-Y id and password. The first time you log in you will need an enrollment key, which you can get from me in class or from our TA, Amanda Francis. The enrollment key is also printed on the syllabus.
• The text we are using has a very high list price. I feel very unhappy about that, but have been convinced that this book is a very good one for students who are learning the material of this course for the first time.

  I highly recommend that students look online for sources of used and discounted copies of this text.

Student Research Mentoring

I am supervising several students--both undergraduates and graduates. My students are mostly working on problems related to new developments in mirror symetry and quantum singularity theory.

My students who were working on problems in in tropical geometry and algebra have all graduated. They do still have a webpage with various results and useful tools, such as Nathan Grigg's Maple code for studying tropical geometry and algebra.

BYU Mathletes Getting Respect

What if we treated star students like star athletes? The BYU math competion team has some real stars this year and in this video and this article they are finally getting some of the respect they deserve.

Outreach

We Use Math! Film Series

The BYU Department of Mathematics is working to help inspire young people to study mathematics by producing a series of several high-quality, short films about careers and opportunities in mathematics.

The Series is called We Use Math! The first segment is complete and can be seen at the site We Use Math.com or on YouTube.

When am I ever going to use Math?

Ever wonder what math is good for and why teachers, parents, school boards, want students to take lots of math? The BYU Math Department has a great site to answer the question When Will I Use Math?

It has resources for students, parents, teachers, and others who want to know more about

• How math is used in everyday life,
• How lots of rewarding careers require math,
• How studying math makes you smarter, and
• How to succeed in math.

Contact information

Department of Mathematics
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602 USA

Telephone: +1 801-422-5925
Fax: +1 801-422-0504
Email: my last name at

Other Resources You May Find Useful

• LDS and Other Religious Resources
• Advice for New Faculty
• Guide to Electronic Resources for Math at BYU
• Algebraic Geometry Resources
• BYU Math Department Library Catalog
• Directions to the BYU Math Department
• An animation of the "Utah" proof of the Pythagorean Theorem.
• An illustration of the concept of the Pythagorean Theorem.
• An animation of another proof of the the Pythagorean Theorem.