Climbing the Ivory Tower

This section is about the long and circuitous route taken by me, Steve Haptonstahl, after deciding I wanted to be a math professor.  Back in high school, I came across a teacher named Jerry Nuckles who showed me that there's more than one correct way to do math.  Proving trig identites proved challenging, but I was hooked.  My senior year I found out about calculus, and that was it.  I've been an unapollogetic math geek ever since (I was already one before, but I stopped apollogizing.)

These pages will share some of the fun and frustration, trials and treasures of my efforts to become a math professor.  You have been warned.

Features:

• Why go to graduate school?  That's the ticket into academia.  Why did I want to go?  Check out the essay I submitted with my application..
• Quotes pages: Want a 5 second approximation of graduate school? Try my quotes pages, my instant gratification-loving friend!
• John Connett's Master's Exam: What should everyone with a Master's degree in math know? Test your knowledge here.

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