About Us

By David A. Smith

The Library of Math is an online math portal that has something to offer every math student, every math educator, every mathematician, and every math enthusiast around.

At the Library of Math we skillfully author subjects and topics of mathematics. Behind the Library of Math is a comprehensive database of mathematical information, which is free for the public to browse. The Library of Math is dedicated to serving the world's need for mathematical education.

Our CafePress.com shop (Math Store) is designed especially for you. Here we offer a wide selection of custom math products (including t-shirts, stickers, mugs, magnets, posters -- and much more). The Math Store is the number one rated "math store" by Google and has well over ten thousand custom math products with hundreds of designs for every math enthusiast.

The Library of Math was founded in 2001 by two math teachers from the University of Texas at Arlington while working on advanced degrees in mathematics. Since then they have gone on to write hundreds of math tutorials and design thousands of custom math products available to anyone wherever they live.

David A. Smith received his Master's Degree from the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) in 2000. He has taught mathematics at UTA since 1997 except for a two year break where he worked in the area of information technology learning about web technologies and pc/server architecture in general. He is certified as an Oracle database administrator and is a Microsoft Office User Specialist. David is an accomplished programmer in many web-related languages.

The Library of Math has many math articles and tutorials, which can guide anyone who is doing and studying mathematics. We offer free online help for high school teachers and students, undergraduate instructors and students, and anyone wishing to refresh or further their mathematical ability. We do not take requests for working out solutions to problems but rather our help is in the form of math tutorials and math articles. Mathematics, and especially math education, is best done by reading and doing it, and not having someone do it for you.

David has taught undergraduate courses in Beginning Algebra, Intermediate Algebra, College Algebra, Trigonometry, Algebra & Trigonometry, Analytic Geometry, Precalculus, Business Algebra, Business Calculus, Calculus I, Calculus III, Euclidean Geometry, Number Theory, Introduction to Proofs, and Abstract Algebra. Math education is of great importance to David.

David's wife Sally is a frequent contributor to the Library of Math. She received her Masters Degree form UTA in 1996 and Ph.D. in 2001. She is an actuary (FSA) and the author of the financial math topics on the Library of Math. She was the driving force behind the creation of the Math Store and many of the designs are her original creations. One of the earliest (and simplest) has gone on to be our most popular design, "Math Diva".