ALLAN MACLEOD

e-mail:   allan.macleod  AT  uws.ac.uk  (trying to reduce spam, but not working too well!)

Personal Details

Married to Jennifer - a music teacher.

Four children :

(i) Alistair (29) - who works for Deloitte , currently on secondment for 2 years in Australia.
(ii) Stuart (27) - who used to teach percussion in Edinburgh schools but gave up before losing his mind, still trying to be a rock star- his band is called The 48
(iii) Catriona (25) - doing a Ph.D. in French at Glasgow University
(iv) Duncan (23) - first-year of a Ph.D. in Gravitational Waves at Cardiff

Current position: Reader in Mathematics
 

Education:

• 1958-1965  Crown Primary School, Inverness
• 1965-1971  Inverness Royal Academy
• 1971-1975  University of Edinburgh, B.Sc. Hons (1st) in Mathematics
• 1975-1978  University of Edinburgh, Ph.D. in Numerical Analysis

• 1978-1979  Medical Computing and Statistics Unit, Edinburgh University
• 1979-1982  Napier College, Edinburgh (now Napier University)
• 1982-1986  Scottish College of Textiles, Galashiels (now part of Heriot-Watt University )
• 1986-present  Paisley College, became University of Paisley and is now part of The University of the West of Scotand

Academic Details

• Teaching all or part of the following modules
• Sequences and Patterns
• Maths of Space and Change
• Mathematics for Design
• Dealing with Data
• Multidimensional Mathematics
• Differential Equations
• Mathematics and Statistics Group Timetabler
• School of Science Timetable Coordinator

Research Interests:

• Special function software ( don't do much in this at the moment)
• High-precision computation of mathematical constants
• Computational number theory, especially elliptic curves as applied to problems in recreational number theory.

• Already Published in Journals
• Technical Reports
• Diophantine Notes