About SBU

Leary, Francis Christian

Name:
Chris Leary
Francis Christian Leary, Ph.D.

Academic School:
School of Arts and Sciences

Academic Department:
Mathematics

Titles/Responsibilities:
Associate Professor, Mathematics 

Contact Information:
Office Phone: (716) 375-2024
E-mail: chleary@sbu.edu 

Office Location/Hours:
De La Roche 301 A

Academic Degrees:
  • Ph.D., Mathematics, State University of New York at Albany
  • M.A., Mathematics, State University of New York at Albany
  • B.A., Mathematics, University of Connecticut

Accomplishments:

Publications

  • “Divergence is not the fault of the series,” Pi Mu Epsilon Journal, Vol. 8, no. 9 (Fall 1988), 588-589.
  • “Rings with invertible regular elements,” Amer. Math. Monthly, 96(1989), no. 10, 924-926.
  • “The chi functions in generalized summability,” Real Anal. Exchange, 15 (1989/1990), no. 1, 203-215.
  • “Dedekind finite objects in module categories,” J. Pure Appl. Alg., 82 (1992), no. 1, 71-80.
  • Instructor’s manual to accompany “For All Practical Purposes (3rd Edition); COMAP/W. H. Freeman.
  • Referee for the Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society and the Real Analysis Exchange.
  • Pre-publication reviewer of:
    • “A Book of Abstract Algebra,” Charles C. Pinter, for McGraw-Hill.
    • “Abstract Algebra: An Introduction,” Thomas W. Hungerford, for McGraw-Hill.
    • “Fundamentals of Abstract Algebra”, Malik, Mordeson, and Sen, for Prentice-Hall.

Other

  • SBU Faculty Research Grant: 1989-1990
  • Principal Investigator, NSF grant for classroom/laboratory integrating technology into the mathematics curriculum (1995).

Current Research Interests/Projects:
  • Abstract algebra – module theory, especially modules over commutative Noetherian rings
  • Four papers in various stages of completion 

Other Interests/Community Involvement:
Theatre and dance.