Biography
Terrence Richard Blackman was born in Georgetown, Guyana. He is an old
boy of the famed Guyanese high school, Queens College. Terrence graduated
Cum Laude with honors in mathematics from Brooklyn College and he holds
M.Phil and Ph.D. degrees, in mathematics, from The Graduate School of City
University of New York. He is a Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Visiting Assistant
Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology(MIT) and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics
of Medgar Evers College in the City University of New York.
Dr. Blackman’s research concerns aspects of the Jacquet-Langlands correspondence in the Langlands Program. These investigations are, broadly speaking, number-theoretic. They involve ideas associated with harmonic and complex analysis and are related to Mark Kac’s famous question: Can you hear the
shape of a drum?
Dr. Blackman is also actively engaged in research on many issues which
surround “Access & Excellence” in the teaching and learning of mathematics in
general and in the African American community in particular. Most recently
he has been particularly interested in the challenges and opportunities of integrating the use of technology, particularly those related to the use of Computer
Algebra Systems, in institutions serving underrepresented students. He is actively engaged in the MathLynx project to facilitate access to mathematics via
the web and to create and deploy intelligent mathematics textbooks. He has
presented this work at local, national and international conferences on the use
of technology in mathematics education.
Terrence is a frequent public speaker on issues related to African American
success in mathematics. He lives in Brooklyn NY with his wife Anna, son
Madiba, daughter Sasha and their dog Peter.
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