Dr. Don Goral

Professor of Mathematics

Biographical Sketch

 

(riding a camel near Dunhuang, China, along China's Silk Road, summer 2007)

"Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority in any town?"

Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Education

B.S. Mathematics - California Institute of Technology

M.A. Mathematics - University of Wisconsin, Madison

M.A. Linguistics - University of California, Berkeley

Ph.D. Linguistics - University of California, Berkeley

Additional graduate mathematics courses - George Mason University, University of Maryland, College Park


Teaching Experience

Mathematics - NVCC -nearly every math course - 1988-present

English - Harbin Institute of Electrical Technology, People's Republic of China - 1 year

English - Silpakorn University, Nakorn Pathom, Thailand - 5 years


Languages studied - from a few months to a few years

English (native language), Spanish, French, German, Russian, Vietnamese, Hebrew, Burmese, Thai, Indonesian, Sanskrit, Cambodian, Chinese

Abecedarium - a book of alphabets

Take a calligraphic detour


Experimenting with Impatica, which allows a narrated PowerPoint presentation to be viewed from the web.

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Page revised: 06/30/07
Contact Dr. Goral at : dgoral@nvcc.edu