STEVE PIERCE PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS

 

Office

BA-215A
Pierce@sciences.sdsu.edu
619-594-4517
Fax: 619-594-6746

 Degrees

B.S., Stanford University, 1963
Ph.D, U.C., Santa Barbara, 1968,
Supervisor, Marvin Marcus

Employment
National Bureau of Standards, 1968-70.
University of Toronto, 1970-83.
San Diego State University, 1983-2001.
 

 
 

Visiting Positions
California Institute of Technology 1976-77
Tax and Financial Programming, option strategy consultant, 1981
Technion University, Haifa, Israel 1991
College of William and Mary 1992
University of Ulm 1996
Brigham Young University 1998

 

Areas of Interest
Linear Algebra
Matrix Analysis
 

Personal Interests

Body surfing, running, skiing, and Texas hold’em

Courses, Spring, 2001

Math 623, Matrix Theory, Mon. and Wed., 3:30-4:45
Math 627B, Modern Algebra, Mon. and Wed., 11:00-12:15
 

Office hours

Mon. and Wed., 9:30-11:00, or by appointment.

 

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

  1. (with R. Loewy), Linear preservers of balanced singular inertia classes, Lin. Alg. And Appl., 201: 61-77 (1994).
  2. (with C.K. Li), Linear operators preserving certain singular matrix sets, Lin. And Mult. Alg., 36: 19-25 (1993)
  3. (with L. Rodman), Lipschitz properties of actions of some matrix groups, Lin. Alg. And Appl., 208/209: 135-174 (1994).
  4. (with R. Loewy), Linear preservers of balanced nonsingular inertia classes, Lin. Alg., And Appl., 223/224: 483-499 (1995).
  5. (with C.K. Li), Linear operators preserving similarity classes and related results, Can. Math. Bull., 37(3): 374-383 (1994).
  6. (with R. Grone, C.K. Li, and J. Ross), Spectral bounds derived from quadratic forms on decomposable tensors, Lin. Alg. And Appl., 201: 181-198 (1994).
  7. (with R. Grone), Decomposably non-negative matrices, Lin. And Mult. Alg., 41(1): 63-79 (1996).
  8. (with G. James and C.R. Johnson), Generalized matrix function inequalities on M-matrices, Jour. London Math. Soc., (2) 57: 562-582 (1998).
  9. Congruence of polynomial matrices, Lin. Alg. And Appl., 294: 1-8 (1999).
  10. (with C.K. Li), Linear Preserver Problems, Amer. Math. Monthly, accepted.
  11. (with C.K. Li), Linear operators preserving correlation matrices, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., submitted.

 

Are you interested in applications of algebra such as cryptography? Find out more at the Communications Website.

Are you interested in applications in business, such as actuarial science or options and futures? Find out more at the Financial Math Website.

 

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