Alexander Wilson

A mathematician standing at the intersection of streets named 'Oberlin' and 'College' Photo taken by Sammy Luo in Stanford, CA.
This site was last updated on November 6, 2024. It was created using Jekyll with interactive components running on p5.js.

About me

I am a visiting assistant professor at Oberlin College. I received my PhD from Dartmouth College advised by Rosa Orellana. My research is in combinatorial representation theory.

E-Mail

Office

King 204

Courses

Gallery

Teaching Tools:

A screenshot of a frequency analysis tool
Frequency Analysis Tool
A frequency analysis tool for substitution ciphers developed for use in the 2020 Summer Math Camp at Dartmouth
A pair of tableaux used in the computation of the product of Schur functions
L-R Rule
An interactive example of Remmel and Whitney's combinatorial rule for expanding the product of Schur functions
Text boxes where students can enter sets to see the result of the operation on them.
Mystery Set Operation
A tool for students to experiment with a set operation by providing two sets to test.

Student Work:

A mentor and student standing in front of the student's poster
Magical Mathematics
In the Winter term of 2023 I mentored Sofia Goncalves in the Dartmouth directed reading program out of the book Magical Mathematics.

Miscellany:

A screenshot of a KenKen puzzle
Gengen
Gengen, a tool for generating KenKen puzzles (no promises that puzzles generated are solvable or have unique solutions)
A close-up of a pie featuring a domino tiling of the Aztec diamond
Pie Art
Mathematical art in the form of pie including the arctic circle theorem, aperiodic monotiles, and pentagonal tilings.
Alex helping to assemble a large hat tiling out of paper
@the_tile_files
An Instagram account run by Beth Anne Castellano and me inspired by our interest in tiling art