<p>I hold a PhD in mathematics and have done research in partial differential equations.  I am a self-taught amateur programmer, although I mainly design programs for my own personal use, or to use for creating simulations and demonstrations for classes that I've taught.</p>

<p>I work with Java and Python mostly and Perl from time to time.  I am interested in relational databases and applications of xml along with statistical and mathematical programming and graphing applications.  As you can probably guess from my avatar, I also like fractals.</p>

<p>I have taught both mathematics and statistics at a college level.</p>

Matthew