Pedro Poitevin


Professional Details

Title Associate Professor
Department Mathematics
Office Sullivan Building 308E
Phone 978.542.6995
Email pedro.poitevin@salemstate.edu
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Recent and Upcoming Courses

IDS 603H Honors Independent Study in Interdisciplinary Studies
MAT 103 Mathematics for the Liberal Arts
MAT 240 Linear Algebra I
MAT 303A Abstract Algebra I
MAT 411 Real Analysis
MAT 490 Senior Seminar in Mathematics
MAT 711 Real Analysis I

Professional Biography

PhD in mathematics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2006 under the direction of C. Ward Henson and Yves Raynaud. Joined Salem State in the Fall of 2006. 

Professional Interests

Interests include continuous logic for metric structures, nonstandard analysis, Banach space geometry, and the interrelationship between mathematics and literature.

Teaching interests span basic and advanced mathematics courses in all areas (with a slight preference for analysis and logic), as well as interdisciplinary and collaborative projects.

Poetry is also a professional interest.

Responsibilities

Interim Graduate Program Coordinator
Assessment Committee Chair
Departmental Awards Committee

Selected Publications

Poitevin, P. (2023). Nowhere at home, Penteract Press, United Kingdom.

Poitevin, P. (2023). Ícaro hace piruetas en las nubes, Urania, Argentina.

Poitevin, P. (2022). Letras griegas. Praxis, México.

Poitevin, P. (2020). A note on representations of Orlicz lattices. Positivity, 25(3), 973-985. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11117-020-00795-1

Poitevin, P. (2020). Ciencias, matemáticas y poesía. Figuras Revista Académica de Investigación, 1(3). https://doi.org/10.22201/fesa.figuras.2020.1.3.116

Poitevin, P. (2015). Perplejidades. Cooperativa La Joplin, México.

Poitevin, P. (2015). Ateo Pedro va para pavor de poeta. Editorial Acapulco, México.

Poitevin, P. (2010). Eco da eco de doce a doce. La Galera, México.

Garrity, T., Belshoff, R., Boos, L., Brown, R., Lienert, C., Murphy, D., Navarra-Madsen, J., Poitevin, P., Robinson, S., Snyder, B., & Werner, C. (2013). Algebraic geometry: A problem solving approach (Student Mathematical Library Vol. 66). American Mathematical Society.

Poitevin, P. & Raynaud, Y. (2008). Ranges of positive contractive projections in Nakano spaces. Indagationes Mathematicae, 19(3), 441-464. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0019-3577(08)80012-2

Poitevin, P. (2006). Model theory of Nakano spaces [Doctoral dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign]. IDEALS. https://hdl.handle.net/2142/86870

Selected Presentations

Las Letras y los Signos: Poesía y Matemáticas, International Book Fair, Guadalajara, México, December 3, 2015

El Mundo como un Laboratorio: Diálogos entre Arte y Ciencia, International Book Fair, Guadalajara, México, December 5, 2015

Poesía y Forma, Facultad de Estudios Superiores, Acatlán, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, August 19, 2014.

Poesía y Matemáticas, Facultad de Estudios Superiores, Acatlán, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, August 19, 2014

Escritura Digital, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, November 25, 2013.

Poesía y Matemáticas, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, November 25, 2013.

Common Knowledge: How a simple puzzle reveals connections between mathematics and the social sciences, Smith College, December 1, 2009.

Basic Model Theory of Nakano SpacesMassachusetts Institute of Technology, September 30, 2009

Ranges of Positive Contractive Projections in Nakano SpacesHarvard University, May 10, 2009

Paving Nakano Spaces by Finite-Dimensional SublatticesUniversité Lyon 1, June 9, 2009

Axioms for Nakano SpacesMassachusetts Institute of Technology, November 5, 2008

Espacios de NakanoUniversidad de los Andes, August 11, 2008

Personal Interests

Mathematical logic, model theory, functional analysis, aesthetics, poetry, translation.