PROFILE

Mohan R

Email: [email protected]

Mohan is a faculty member at the School of Arts and Sciences, and joined the Azim Premji University in 2020. He is the multi-media editor at Bhavana mathematics magazine and runs the YouTube channel Math Nomad. He has taught in Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham at Bangalore campus and was field associate in Azim Premji Foundation at Puducherry District Institute.

Personal website: https://sites.google.com/site/mathnomad/

Academic Qualifications

• BScEd, Regional Institute of Education (NCERT), Mysore, 2010
• MSc in Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, 2012
• PhD in Mathematics, Indian Statistical Institute Bangalore Centre, 2020

Areas of Interest

Stone type dualities, Undergraduate mathematics education, History and philosophy of mathematics, and Mathematics communication.

Research Interests

Leavitt path algebras, Operator algebras, and Algebraic K theory

Publications and Writings

Mathematics:

• Cohn-Leavitt path algebras of bi-separated graphs (with BN Suhas), Submitted. Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.00159
• Leavitt path algebras of weighted Cayley graphs Cn(S,w), To appear in Proceeding - Mathematical Sciences, Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.09866

Mathematics Education:

• Review of the book Mathematician's Delight, by W.W.Sawyer, At Right Angles - A resource for School Mathematics, 8(1), 106-109.
• Mathematics Training and Talent Search Programme- A report. In S. Ladage & S. Narvekar (Eds.), Proceedings of epiSTEME 7 — International Conference to Review Research on Science, Technology and Mathematics Education, p.276-284. India: Cinnamon Teal. https://episteme7.hbcse.tifr.res.in/proceedings/

Mathematics communication:

• The truth that liberates: An interview with Anatoly Vershik (with Sudhir Rao), Bhavana mathematics magazine, 4(2), April 2020.