“There is no substitute for hard work. Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
Thomas Edison
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  Gary Olson
    Mathematics Faculty Member                                                        
    University of Colorado-Denver
    Office:  642 CU-Denver Building                MCM/ICM Math Modeling Competition
    Phone:  (303)-556-3752
    Office Hours:  TBA
   Classes I Teach  
    Fall 2007:                College Algebra
    Fall 2007:                Calculus I:  Section 1
    Fall 2007:                Calculus I:  Section 3
    Fall 2007:                Algebraic Functions and Patterns I for Middle School Teachers   

    Summer 2007:         RM-MSMSP Probability and Statistics for Middle School Teachers
    Summer 2007:         RM-MSMSP Mathematical Modeling for Middle School Teachers
            
    Spring 2007:            Introductory Statistics (Online)
    Spring 2007:            College Trigonometry
    Spring 2007:            RM-MSMSP Probability and Statistics for Middle School Teachers (SFU)  

    Fall 2006:                College Algebra
    Fall 2006:                Introductory Statistics (Online)
    Fall 2006:                Math for the Liberal Arts (M/W 10:00-11:15)
    Fall 2006:                Math for the Liberal Arts (M/W 1:00-2:15)

    Summer 2006:         RM-MSMSP Mathematical Modeling for Middle School Teachers
    Summer 2006:         RM-MSMSP Probability and Statistics for Middle School Teachers
    Summer 2006:         College Algebra (Online)
    Summer 2006:         Mathematics for the Liberal Arts Student (Online)
 

    Spring 2006:            College Algebra-MA 1110-002
    Spring 2006:            College Algebra-MA 1110-004
    Spring 2006:            Introductory Statistics-MA 2830-001
    Spring 2006:            Introductory Statistics-MA 2830-002

    Summer 2005:        Mathematics for the Liberal Arts Student (Lecture)
    Summer 2005:        Mathematics for the Liberal Arts Student (Online)

    Spring 2005:           Math Clinic  

    Fall 2004:               Mathematics for the Liberal Arts Student  
                                    Student, while studying credit card debt problems: "Why didn't somebody ever tell me math was this useful!!"

    Summer 2004:        Calculus I
                                    "By the end of Calc I, I had so many tools I could cut down a tree with a sledgehammer."Calc I Student

    Spring 2004:           Mathematics for the Liberal Arts Students
                                           "In Math you do not understand things, you just get used to them."  John Von Neumann

    Fall 2003:                College Algebra
                                     Student:  "Do I really have to take the accuplacer?"  Professor:  "Yes!!"

A physicist and an engineer are in a hot-air balloon. They've been drifting for hours, and have no idea where they are. They see another person in a balloon, and call out to her: "Hey, where are we?" She replies, "You're in a balloon," and drifts off again. The engineer says to the physicist, "That person was obviously a mathematician." They physicist replies, "How do you know that?" "Because what she said was completely true, but utterly useless."


You may e-mail me at gary.olson@cudenver.edu