Lecturer
Eric Chang is a lecturer in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Boston University. He earned a BS in electrical engineering from Columbia University, a MA in mathematics for teachers from Western New England University, and a PhD in mathematics from Boston University when the math department was still a hole in the ground on Cummington Mall. Eric returns to Boston after three years as postdoctoral lecturer at Northwestern University and three years as lecturer at Loyola University Chicago. He is endlessly fascinated by the self-similarity found in visualizations of iterated functions of complex variables. Rather than learning new things, he has managed to shoehorn fractals into undergraduate projects about Koch curves and coastlines, origami and buckyballs, Markov chains and Sierpiński n-gons, hats and tiling, and fast vs slow fashion. Eric certainly doesn’t feel intense discomfort writing about himself in the third person. His hobbies include being stuck in Baba Is You, one-hundred-percenting Slay the Spire, finding unforgiveable flaws in every board game he’s ever played, losing to Cruel Reality in Magic: the Gathering drafts, and talking to his cat.