Heikki Apiola

Docent of Mathematics, Lecturer emeritus Email:heikki.apiola@hut.fi Tel: +358-50-5885802 Institute of Mathematics (Room U301) Helsinki University of Technology P.O.Box 1000 FIN-02015 HUT Finland Being retired from my Lecturer's job, I should have all the time I ever dreamt of. The relity is a bit different though, for several reasons, some of them being indicated below.

Interests, activities

• Mathematics, Functional Analysis, pure and applied
• Computers in mathematics education and research
• Mathematical software and numerical methods
• Music, singing in a choir
• Tennis, skiing, canoeing, walking in the mountains
• Grandchildren (ages 8,6,4,3,1,1,1,0.5) [Nov 2011] (total nr = 8)

Some of the important time intervals of my professional career are included here.

Recent articles and presentations

Maple-presentation (in Finnish) in software session
in Workshop for New Perspectives in Mathematics Education, Aalto University 24.10.2011

   I contribute regularly to these mathematical net-forums:

• Solmu, a mathematical journal for high-school students (Member of the editorial board)
• Intmath, an interactive mathematics portal

1. Solmu 1/2011: Riittääkö lämmitysöljy Calculations for an "oilstick" for a cylinder-formed container whose length and radius are unknown. Maple is made use of.
2. Intmath, April 2009: Mathematics and music (in Finnish, to be translated soon)
3. Solmu 1/2008: Lukuteoriaa ja salakirjoitusta, osa 2
4. Solmu 3/2007: Lukuteoriaa ja salakirjoitusta, osa 1
5. Solmu 1/2007: Vektorit, matriisit, Händel ja vaalit
6. Solmu 3/2004: Polynomials, interpolation and approximation (In Finnish)
7. Solmu 5/1999: Matemaattista symbolien käsittelyä

Scientific papers, conference talks, general articles

• Scientific papers and conferences
• Articles for general audience (in Finnish)

Books and web material on Mathematical software

• Symbolic and Numeric Mathematics using Maple
  This web page is a supplement to the book (in Finnish), published by Otapaino in 1998
• Matlab course material for short courses from Aug 2010 on.
• Lyhyt Matlab-opas (in Finnish, A short guide to Matlab, to be completed)
• Laajempi, mutta keskeneräisempi Matlab-opas (in Finnish, A more extensive (and more unfinished) guide to Matlab)

Current courses and selected older course pages (mainly in Finnish)

• Matemaattiset ohjelmistot Mat-1.C, 1 op. (12-28.3.2012) (Mathematical software, Matlab,Maple)
• Matlab courses (First course May 2010, second Aug 2010)
• KP3-ii, 2008
• KP3-ii, 2006
• Numeric and symbolic computing 2005
• Numeric and symbolic computing 2004