Welcome to Tamara Veenstra's Home Page

About Me

I am currently a research mathematician at the Center for Communications Research-La Jolla and Emerita Professor of Mathematics at University of Redlands. I earned my Ph.D. in mathematics from Dartmouth College in 1997. My background area of mathematics is number theory, but I am also interested in machine learning/AI and data science. During my 26 years as a professor I enjoyed engaging students with a variety of topics and methods and developed a wide variety of teaching materials, some of which are available below.

Cryptology Textbook

Based on many years teaching an introductory cryptology class, I developed an open educational access textbook for a mathematical cryptology course featuring many interactive and computational explorations.

Cryptology by Discovery An Introduction to Conjecture and Proof, Open Educational Resource Textbook, September 2020.

Other Classroom Materials

• Cryptology
• Origami
• Calculus
• Machine Learning Notes
• Historical Codes and Ciphers Notes (Incomplete)

List of Courses Taught

• First Year Seminar -- Making, Breaking Codes: An Exploration of Historical Codes and Ciphers
• First Year Seminar -- Magical Realms: An Exploration of Fantasy Novels
• Proudian (Interdisciplinary Honors Program) Senior Seminar on Historical Codes and Ciphers
  
• Calculus I, II, and III
• Mathematical Cryptology
• Machine Learning
• Number Theory and History of Mathematics
• Abstract Algebra
• The Mathematics of Origami
• Conjecture and Proof in Disrete Mathematics
• Linear Algebra
• Discrete Mathematics
• Geometry
• Complex Analysis
• Real Analysis
• Senior Seminar