0 Rebekah Yates

Rebekah Yates

Rebekah Yates

Professor of Mathematics

585.567.9288

Rebekah developed a deep appreciation for Christian liberal arts education while a math major at Wheaton College. After she graduated in 2003, she taught middle school math for a year in the Atlanta area before returning to school to pursue her PhD at the University of Montana in Missoula (2006, 2009). She then joined the Houghton math faculty in Fall 2009.

Rebekah and her husband Ryan, a computer scientist, are true math nerds: they began dating during their Complex Analysis class in their senior year at Wheaton. In addition to mathematics, they enjoy running, cycling, hiking, playing Ultimate, and spending time with their children, Judah and Junia.

Education

  • Ph.D. Mathematics | University of Montana
  • M.A. Mathematics | University of Montana
  • B.S. Mathematics | Wheaton College, magna cum laude

Courses taught:

Real Analysis I and II, Linear Algebra, Graph Theory, Calculus I and II, Reason and Abstraction, and Mathematics Senior Seminar

Scholarship interests:

Functional Analysis (Uniform Algebras), Linear Algebra (Numerical Range), and Mathematics Education (Active Learning, Teacher Preparation, and Teacher Enrichment)

Publications:

  • Camenga, K. A., Deaett, L., Rault, P. X., Sendova, T., Spitkovsky, I. M., and Yates, R. B. J. “Singularities of Base Polynomials and Gau-Wu Numbers.” Linear Algebra and Its Applications, Volume 581, Elsevier, 15 November 2019, pp. 112-127.
  • Camenga, K., and Yates, R. (Feb. 2020). “The Real Numbers: Not All Decimals Are Fractions.” Frontiers for Young Minds, 8:4.
  • Camenga, K. A., and Yates, R. B. J. (Oct. 2014). “Connecting the Dots: Rediscovering Continuity.” Mathematics Teacher, 108:3, 213-217. National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
  • Deaett, L., Lafuente-Rodriguez, R., Marin, J., Martin, E., Patton, L., Rasmussen, K., and Yates, R. (Sept. 2013). “Trace conditions for symmetry of the numerical range.” Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra, 26, 591-603. International Linear Algebra Society.
  • Hatori, O., Lambert, S., Luttman, A., Miura, T., Tonev, T., and Yates, R. (2011). “Spectral Preservers in Commutative Banach Algebras, in Function Spaces in Modern Analysis.” Contemporary Mathematics,  547, 103-123. American Mathematical Society.
  • Tonev, T. and Yates, R. (Sept. 2009).”Norm-Linear and Norm-Additive Operators Between Uniform Algebras.” Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 357:1, 45-53.
  • “Norm-Preserving Criteria for Uniform Algebra Isomorphisms.” (2009). Ph.D. dissertation in mathematics, University of Montana.
  • Hruska, S., Johnson, R. and Yates, R. (Spring 2004).”An Alternating Series Expansion for (ln(2))^2.” Pi Mu Epsilon Journal, 545-548. (Rebekah is the “Johnson, R.” in this instance; this paper was the result of research done as an undergraduate.)

Selected Recent Talks:

  • “Oh, the Books You Can Read!” Joint Mathematics Meetings, Denver, January 16, 2020.
  • “All Natural π.” MAA Seaway Section Banquet Address, St. John Fisher College, April 5, 2019.
  • “Infinity and Transcendence.” The Nickel City Forum, Buffalo, November 29, 2018.
  • “A Century at Home on the (Numerical) Range: Historical Highlights and Current Research.” University of Nebraska at Omaha Mathematics Colloquium, October 26, 2018.
  • “Incarnate in the Ordinary.” Houghton University Baccalaureate, May 11, 2018.
  • “Knowing What You Know.” Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Diego, January 12, 2018.
  • “On Beyond Calculus: A Day for Community Outreach.”
    Association of Christian in the Mathematical Sciences Conference, Charleston Southern University, June 2, 2017.
  • “There Are 10 Kinds of People: Those Who Come to This Session and Those Who Don’t.”
    Houghton Math and Science Day interactive session, Houghton University, February 7, 2017.
  • “The Mathematics of Voting.”
    Math Discovery Day interactive session, Houghton University, April 9, 2016.
  • “As the Crow Flies and the Taxi Drives.”
    Houghton Math and Science Day interactive session, Houghton University, February 2, 2016.
  • “On Beyond Calculus.”
    Joint Mathematics Meetings, Seattle, January 9, 2016.

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