jostylr

Welcome to the wide world of jostylr, a web programmer, mathematician, and father.

Blogs

The best way to get to know me is through my writings:

Projects

My portfolio, if you will

My Background

A brief pertinent background is that I obtained a PhD from Rutgers University in mathematics on the topic of Bohmian mechanics, a theory of quantum mechanics. I also dabble in differential geometry. On pleasant occasions, I get to dabble in both simultaneously. This is my advisor's page.

After a couple of years in academia (Iowa State University, Marymount University), I ended up teaching in a distance education program (Center for Talented Youth, Johns Hopkins University) teaching very bright and gifted K-12 students who are eager to learn mathematics. It has been very enjoyable and educational. It has afforded me the opportunity to focus on mastering web technologies. I have taught the full range of high school mathematics course.

I left that program (though since have gone back to work part-time) in an effort to focus on my projects and to raise my daughter.

As for computers, when I was young I had extensive interactions with them and was a natural programmer. But during my college and graduate years, I lacked a computer (portable computers were not too good in those days and I hate clunky desk ones). But once I obtained one again, I learned Perl followed by Javascript and PHP. These languages are extremely nice to program in and their power is amazing.

Papers