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Jack Burke

Title:Lecturer
Office:Warde Academic Center
Phone:773-298-3391
Email:jburke@sxu.edu
Department:Mathematics

Biography

Jack Burke earned his master’s degree in mathematics from the University of Illinois Chicago and his bachelor’s in mathematics from the University of Pittsburgh. In graduate school, Burke taught and assisted in teaching a wide range of math courses, from college preparatory algebra to doctoral-level algebraic topology. As a Ph.D. candidate, his research focused on algebraic topology and category theory.


Education

M.S. in Mathematics

University of Illinois Chicago

B.S. in Mathematics, Minor in Political Science

University of Pittsburgh

Areas of Specialization

Pure Mathematics, Algebraic Topology, Category Theory


Courses Taught

  • MATH 132: Business Statistics
  • MATH 135: Introduction to Statistics