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Leendert van Gastel
born 12 July 1961
Address
Expertisecentrum CAN
Universiteit van Amsterdam
Faculteit WINS
Kruislaan 404
1098 SM Amsterdam
email: gastel@uva.nl
homepage: http://www.science.uva.nl/~gastel
tel: +31 - (0)20 - 5255723
fax: +31 - (0)20 - 5255866
Education
Work
University of Utrecht (1990-1991)
Teaching Calculus and Linear Algebra to students of mathematics and
physics
CAN Expertise Centre (1991-now)
- Support for customers, management of the Expertise
Centre;
- Special project SCAFI about
introducing computer algebra in industry;
- Mathematica consultancy cases for various firms;
- Training and courses in Mathematica;
- Development of a course in Java;
Interests
It is a nice environment for mathematics with
beautiful graphics and a functional programming language.
Apart from an island belonging to Indonesia, it is an object-oriented
programming language with special
features that make it useful for the Internet. My interest
is primarily in the possibilities it can offer for education. A nice example
from the University of California at Irvine.
It is an illustration to the Boltzmann paradox about the
irreversibility
of nature.
That is different. Wind, waves, navigating with the sun and the stars,
...