Zvezdelina Entcheva Stankova

Teaching Professor of Mathematics

Director and Founder of the Berkeley Math Circle

Office: 713 Evans Hall

Department of Mathematics

University of California at Berkeley, CA 94720-3840

Email: "last name, lowercase" at "university name" dot edu

Tel: 510-642-3768

Webpage: http://math.berkeley.edu/~stankova

Office Hours Spring 2022:

MWF 11:00-11:50AM (Free Speech Cafe/zoom while UCB is online)

M 2:10-3:00PM (Evans 713/zoom while UCB is online)

W 2:10-3:00PM (zoom)

With enrollment questions:

Contact Marsha Snow or Thomas Brown at the Math Department: during their office hours, in person (NOT on email!) if you want your question to be answered quickly.

Write to enrollment@math.berkeley.edu but be aware that lots of people will be writing to this email address, so you are better off going directly in person to Marsha Snow or Thomas Brown.

Do NOT contact the instructor, as I have no impact on enrollment in the classes. Writing to me with enrollment questions will indicate that you have not read my personal website, which is the first thing you need to do before deciding whether to contact or not an instructor with a particular question. Email to me is only for emergencies, and NOT for routine or non-emergency questions.

For availability updates on Spring 2022 Math classes please see the following website:

https://math.berkeley.edu/courses/enrollment/enrollment-updates

by Victoria Lee, Direct of Student Services, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley, 967 Evans Hall, Berkeley CA, (510) 664-4603

Current Courses

Spring 2022:

MATH 53 Multivariable Calculus, LEC 001-002: Time: MWF 12-1PM, 1PM-2PM | VLSB 2050/On zoom while UCB is online|

Syllabus MATH 53 Spring 2022, to be posted by 1/16/2022 | Course Materials on bcourses.berkeley.edu

Future Courses

Spring 2023:

MATH 1B Calculus II, LEC 001-002: Time TBA | Place TBA|

Syllabus MATH 1B Spring 2023, to be posted by 1/16/2023 | Course Materials on bcourses.berkeley.edu

Past Courses

Fall 2021:

MATH 110 Linear Algebra, LEC 001-002: Time: MWF 12-1PM, 2PM-3PM| Latimer 120|

Syllabus MATH 110 Fall 2021, to be posted by 8/20/2020| Course Materials on bcourses.berkeley.edu

Spring 2021:

MATH 53 Multivariable Calculus, LEC 001-002: Time: MWF 12-1PM, 1PM-2PM | On Zoom|

Syllabus MATH 53 Spring 2021, to be posted by 1/16/2021 | Course Materials on bcourses.berkeley.edu

Fall 2020:

MATH 74 Introduction to Proofs, Time: MWF 10-11AM | On Zoom |

Syllabus MATH 74 Fall 2020, to be posted by 8/20/2020 | Course Materials on bcourses.berkeley.edu

MATH 110 Linear Algebra: Time: MWF 12-1PM | On Zoom |

Syllabus MATH 110 Fall 2020, to be posted by 8/20/2020| Course Materials on bcourses.berkeley.edu

Spring 2020:

MATH 10B Methods of Mathematics: Calculus, Statistics, and Combinatorics, LEC 001-002: Time: 1-2PM, 2-3PM | Stanley 105 |

Syllabus MATH 10B Spring 2020, updated 1/15/2020 | Course Materials on bcourses.berkeley.edu

Fall 2019:

MATH 10A Methods of Mathematics: Calculus, Statistics, and Combinatorics: Time: MWF 10-11AM | Stanley 105 | and MWF 12-3PM | Valley Life Sciences 2050 |

Syllabus MATH 10A Fall 2019, updated 8/20/2010 | Course Materials on bcourses.berkeley.edu

Spring 2019:

MATH 10B Methods of Mathematics: Calculus, Statistics, and Combinatorics, LEC 001-002: Time: MWF 1-2PM and MWF 2-3PM | Valley Life Sciences 2050 |

Syllabus MATH 10B Spring 2019, updated 1/16/2018 | Course Materials on bcourses.berkeley.edu

Fall 2018:

MATH 10A Methods of Mathematics: Calculus, Statistics, and Combinatorics, LEC 002: Time: MWF 10:11AM | Stanley 105 |

Syllabus MATH 10A Fall 2018, updated 8/21/2018 | Course Materials on bcourses.berkeley.edu

MATH 10A Methods of Mathematics: Calculus, Statistics, and Combinatorics, LEC 001: Time: MWF 12:1PM | Valley Life Sciences 2050 |

Syllabus MATH 10A Fall 2018, updated 8/21/2018 | Course Materials on bcourses.berkeley.edu

Spring 2018:

MATH 10B Methods of Mathematics: Calculus, Statistics, and Combinatorics: Time: MWF 10:11AM | Valley Life Sciences 2050 |

Syllabus MATH 10B Spring 2018, updated 1/16/2018 | Course Materials on bcourses.berkeley.edu

MATH 53 Multivariable Calculus: Time: 12-1PM | Place: 155 Dwinelle |

Syllabus MATH 53 Spring 2018, updated 1/16/2018 | Course Materials on bcourses.berkeley.edu

Fall 2017:

MATH 10A Methods of Mathematics: Calculus, Statistics, and Combinatorics: TuTh 11:00AM-12:30PM | Valley Life Sciences 2050|

Syllabus MATH 10A Fall 2017, updated 8/21/2017 | Course Materials on bcourses.berkeley.edu

MATH 110 Linear Algebra: TuTh 8:00AM-9:30AM | Valley Life Sciences 2050 |

Syllabus MATH 110 Fall 2017, updated 8/21/2017| Course Materials on bcourses.berkeley.edu

Spring 2017:

MATH 1B: Calculus II: TuTh 8:00AM-9:30AM | Dwinelle 155 | Syllabus MATH 1B, updated 1/15/2017 | Course Materials will on bcourses.berkeley.edu

MATH 110 Linear Algebra: TuTh 11:00AM-12:30PM | Valley Life Sciences 2050 | Syllabus MATH 110, updated 1/16/2017| Course Materials on bcourses.berkeley.edu

Fall 2016:

MATH 110 Linear Algebra: TuTh 8:00AM-9:30AM | 2050 Valley Life Sciences | Syllabus MATH 110 | Course Materials on bcourses.berkeley.edu

MATH 55 Discrete Mathematics: TuTh 12:30PM-2:00PM | 105 Stanley | Syllabus MATH 55 | Course Materials on bcourses.berkeley.edu

Instructions for Requesting a Recommendation Letter

Read carefully and follow strictly these Instructions.

There is a one-month period AFTER:

1. I have received all information from you and from your GSI(s);

2. And all on-line links for letter submission have been sent to me by the programs;

3. And BEFORE I submit the letter.

Thus, start the process at least 6 weeks before my deadline for the letter. Note that I will write no recommendation letters during finals periods and breaks: summer (May 1-August 31), winter (Dec 1-Jan 22), or spring break. Do NOT count the time in these periods as part of the one-month period above.

Selected Publications

Combinatorics and Algebraic Geometry:

Shape-Wilf-Ordering of Permutations of Length 3, Electronic Journal of Combinatorics.

Explicit Enumeration of the 321-hexagon Avoiding Permutations, with Julian West, Discrete Mathematics.

321-Polygon-Avoiding Permutations and Chebyshev Polynomials, with Toufik Mansour, Electronic Journal of Combinatorics.

Moduli of Trigonal Curves, Journal of Algebraic Geometry.

Forbidden Subsequences, Discrete Mathematics.

Problem Solving in Mathematics:

"A Decade of the Berkeley Math Circle: The American Experience," Volume I, with Tom Rike, AMS/MSRI.

"A Decade of the Berkeley Math Circle: The American Experience," Volume II, with Tom Rike, AMS/MSRI.

Numberphile Channel

directed by Brady Haran

Videos on Games and Geometry Puzzles

with Zvezdelina Stankova

See some proof and problem-solving ideas that come handly in a variety of math areas:

A Miraculous Proof (Ptolemy's Theorem)

Conway Checkers I: The Game Set-up and the Challenge

Conway Checkers II: The Proof

Triangle has a Magic Highway (Euler Line)

Three Squares

Freedom for the Clones

Berkeley Math Circle

http://mathcircle.berkeley.edu