Lin Tan

Lin Tan
  • Professor
  • Department: Mathematics
  • Institution: West Chester University of Pennsylvania
  • Email: LTan@wcupa.edu

Education

  • Ph.D. (Mathematics) University of California, Los Angeles, 1986
  • M.A. (Mathematics) University of California, Los Angeles, 1982
  • M.S. Zhejian University, 1981
  • B.A. Zhejian University, 1979

Research Interests

Algebraic groupsNumber theoryCombinatoricsGeometry

Opportunities

Work Study Positions Available: No

Grant Funded Positions Available: No

Course-Credit Research Opportunities Available: No

Volunteer Research Positions Available: No

Contact Information

Phone: 610-436-3455

List of Publications

  • On the fixed points of symmetric product mappings, M.S. Thesis, Zhejiang University, 1982. On the cyclicity of G-modules, research report, Department of Mathematics, UCLA, 1985. The invariant theory of unipotent subgroups of reductive algebraic groups, Ph.D. dissertation, UCLA, 1986. On the Popov-Pommerening conjecture for the groups of type G2, Algebras, Groups and Geometries, vol. 5, no. 4 (1988) 421-432. An algorithm for explicit generators of the invariants of the basic Ga-actions, Communications in Algebra, vol. 17, no. 3 (1989) 565-572. On the Popov-Pommerening conjecture for the groups of type An, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 106, no. 3 (1989) 611-616. Some recent development in the Popov-Pommerening Conjecture, Proceedings of the International Conference on Group Actions, Canadian Mathematical Society Conference Proceedings, vol. 10(1989) 207-220. Some determinantal identities and the big cells, Advances in Mathematics, vol. 101, no. 1 (1993) 1-9. Signs in the Laplace expansions and the parity of the distinguished representatives, Discrete Mathematics, vol. 131 (1994) 287-299. An Introduction to Invariant Theory, Volume I. Zhejiang University Press, 1994. On the distinguished coset representatives of the parabolic subgroups in finite Coxeter groups, Communications in Algebra, vol. 22, no. 3 (1994) 1049-1061. On a theorem of Bell-Campbell-Hughes, Communications in Algebra, vol. 23, no. 5 (1995) 1927-1930. The group of rational points on the unit circle, Mathematics Magazine, vol. 69, no. 3 (1996) 163-171. Proof Without Words: Eisenstein’s Duplication Formula 2csc (2?) = tan ?+ cot ?, Mathematics Magazine, vol. 71, no. 3 (1998), 207. Notes on the Gamma Function. Zhejiang University Press, 2001. A geodesic between Hilbert’s Basis Theorem and Gordan’s Lemma, Northeastern Mathematics Journal, 2002. Some new identities in Fibonacci Numbers, in preparation. Notes on the Gamma Function. Second edition, in preparation. Combinatorics Through Generating Functions. In preparation.

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