Dilcher, Karl

Professor
PhD - Queen's University (1983)
Dipl. Math -TU Clausthal (1979)
MSc - Queen's University (1978)
"Vordiplom"- TU Clausthal (1976)

Mail: Address
e-mail:dilcher@mathstat.dal.ca
Office: Chase Room 325/219
Tel: (902)494-3784/6913
Fax: (902)494-5130
Homepage: Dr. Karl Dilcher's Website

Research Interests:
- Number theory (elementary, computational, analytic)
- Classical analysis (zeros of polynomials, inequalities)
- Bernoulli numbers and polynomials, and related sequences
Selected Recent Publications:
- (With K. Haller) Multiple zeta sums via box splines, Proc. of
  the Turku Colloquium on Number Theory (to appear, 2001).
- (With J.I. Brown and R.J. Nowakowski) Roots of independence
  polynomials of well covered graphs. J. Algebraic Combin. 11
  (2000), no. 3, 197-210.
- (With R.P. Brent, R.E. Crandall and C. van Halewyn) Three new
  factors of Fermat numbers, Math. Comp. 69 (2000), no. 231,
  1297-1304. MR 2000j:11194.
- Hypergeometric functions and Fibonacci numbers, Fibonacci
  Quart. 38 (2000), no. 4, 342-363.
- An extension of Fermat's little theorem, and congruences for
  Stirling numbers, Amer. Math. Monthly 107 (2000), no. 10.