Bart Snapp

Associate Professor of Teaching-Practice

Department of Mathematics
The Ohio State University
100 Math Tower
231 West 18th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210-1174

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Email: snapp.14@osu.edu
Office: Math Building, MA 220

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Research Interests

I have many interests. I am most interested in commutative algebra, but I am also interested in number theory and algebraic geometry. I finished my PhD in 2007 at the University of Illinois under the supervision of Sankar Dutta. Here is some professional information about me:

• Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
• Publications
• The Ximera Project an NSF sponsered project for converting LaTeX notes to an interactive experience.
• m4th.pro(gramming)

Math Parody Songs

I sing and record noise which sometimes I call music. Here are some math parody songs. I did not write the lyrics for either of these. If you have a song that you want recorded, tell me and I might do it!

• Nonabelian (MP3) The lyrics of this song were written by Mary Pat Campbell and Christopher Tuffley.
• Punk Rock Noetherian Girl (MP3) The lyrics of this song were written by Richard Green.

Commutative Diagrams as Art (PDF)

Publications

Research

• Ideals with larger projective dimension and regularity (with J. Beder, J. McCullough, L. Nunez-Betancourt, A. Seceleanu, and B. Stone). J. Symbolic Comput. 46 (2011), no. 10, 1105-1113. doi:10.1016/j.jsc.2011.05.011
  M2 code mentioned in the above paper.
• A note on the variety of pairs of matrices whose product is symmetric (with M. Majidi-Zolbanin ). In Commutative Algebra and its Connections to Geometry (PASI 2009), A. Corso, C. Polini (eds.), Contemporary Mathematics, volume 555, American Mathematical Society.
• Free summands of syzygies of modules over local rings. J. Pure Appl. Algebra 214 (2010), no. 10, 1808--1811. doi:10.1016/j.jpaa.2009.12.023
• Generalized local cohomology and the canonical element conjecture. J. Pure Appl. Algebra 212 (2008), no. 4, 941--954. doi:10.1016/j.jpaa.2007.07.017

Research with Undergraduates

• The no-three-in-line problem on a torus (with J. Fowler, A. Groot, and D. Pandya). Preprint.
  
• The Collatz problem and analogues (with M. Tracy). J. Integer Seq. 11 (2008), no. 4, Article 08.4.7, 10 pp. 11T55 (11B25).
  Pari/GP code mentioned in the above paper.

Popular Mathematics

• Gaming the Law of Large Numbers (with T. Hoffman). The Mathematics Teacher. To Appear.
• Automotive Number Theory (with C. Snapp). Math Horizons. September (2009), 26--27.

Non-Math Interests

• Astonish Yourself! 101 Experiments in the Philosophy of Everyday Life, a book by Roger-Pol Droit that everyone should probably read and experience.
• The Flaming Lips
• Kafka's "Before the Law"
• Ubuntu--why not give linux a try today?
• Star Trek
• Robobart!