Michael Wester

``That may be true,'' he acknowledged, ``but it's completely accurate, and as long as the answer is right, who cares if the question is wrong? If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself.''
-- The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

Location: Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico, USA

My favorite mathematical expression.
My favorite mathematical picture: the level curves of the 3D surface of
    z = sin(x + y) sin(x - y) / tan^-1(x² - y) = (cos y² - cos x²) / tan^-1(x² - y),
   which I denote "the lobo function" as it resembles the University of New Mexico mascot.
Some photographs that I have taken.
A photo of me in Four Windows Lava Tube, El Malpais, New Mexico
   (taken by Kenneth Ingham)--the silvery flecks are the microbe actinomycetes.
A photo of me "jawboning" in Raleigh, North Carolina (taken by Eugenio Roanes-Lozano).
What is a Ph.D. worth? The answer I learned in St. Kitts!
The meaning of life, the universe and everything.
My vita (for those that care about that kind of thing).

Papers:

• A Critique of the Mathematical Abilities of CA Systems (in Computer Algebra Systems: A Practical Guide [1999])
• A Nucleation Theory of Cell Surface Capping (with Evangelos A. Coutsias and Alan S. Perelson)
• Writing a Fortran 90 Makefile Maker in Perl
• Book review of Mathematica, A System for Doing Mathematics by Computer, Second Edition (in SIAM Review)
• Form Letters with 3-Across Labels Capability (using TeX/LaTeX)
• Globular Clusters

Utilities:

• address (for creating form letters and 3-across labels using TeX/LaTeX)
• makemake (a C/FORTRAN 77/Fortran 90 Makefile maker written in Perl)
• makemake

• Albuquerque etymology
• Tables of units from an 1841 arithmetic book
• Enigma of Sentience; an Allegory of the Arts and Sciences
• Cat pix (taken by Yuliya Kuznetsova)
• Striped crocus (taken by Kathy Ptacek)
• Genealogical resources

Links that I find interesting. (WARNING: There are many of them!)