Andrew M.H. Alexander

I like words, math, mountains, and people.

I live in Northern California. I am originally from Ithaca, New York.

andrewmhalexander@gmail.com ⦿ (607) 592-4759

• “Immersive Theatre, Interactive Fiction, and Multivariable Calculus” (slides, handout, video)
• double integrals as paper cuts
• infinitesimal legos
• complex exponentiation zine (or, why iⁱ is punk)
• multidimensional multivariable calculus syllabus
• giant compass constructions
• complex numbers notes
• logarithms and fractional exponents, literally
• sierpinski carpet coasters
• polar tetris
• my letter to the New York Times about math education
• ancient calculus notes

• Oliver Sacks on being an outsider
• Death, Birth, and the Class of 2024
• Callard and Brooks on education, aging, and “heterodidacticism”
• C.S. Lewis on excitement as immaturity
• On Richard Anderson and Chris Blackburn
• ballet : climbing :: math : programming
• Notes on sailing

• summer 2025: running, climbing, hiking
• “third-annual” foraging-themed northern california bike tour (march 2025)
• the broken arrow 46k, june 2024
• trinity alps fishing report, august 2023
• the lost coast, november 2022
• iowa, july 2021
• john muir trail, summer 2020 (planning doc) (photos)
• athens, sofia, istanbul; january 2019
• oregon, december 2015
• kashmir, december 2014
• new york, june 2011
• arizona: september 2010, april 2011
• south america, 2008: chile I, chile II, peru, argentina
• northern new york, march 2008
• iran, september 2007

• approach crocs
• bicycle drivetrain visualizer
• volumetric units demystified
• sierpinski carpet coasters
• double-red-eye time comprehension chart
• risk simulator
• BART visualizer

• chicago maroon columns
• r.o., et al., v. ithaca
• running, climbing
• christmas cards (2019, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2010)

• grandma janet's memorial service booklet
• grandpa brian's posthumous war memoir (PDF)
• my great-great-grandfather's coming-to-america story