Jordan Schettler
Associate Professor
Number Theory
[email protected]
MH 417
Research Areas
- Algebraic & Analytic Number Theory
- Connections of Math to Art and Music
Biography
I was born and raised in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the shadow of the Great Smoky Mountains.
From an early age, I had interests in both the arts and the sciences. I had a talent
for mathematics but dreamed of becoming an artist and musician. I did not realize
at the time that mathematics and creativity pair very nicely, and my path to becoming
a mathematician turned out to be a nonstandard one: I spent a year after high school
washing dishes at a BBQ restaurant and then stocking auto parts for a warehouse in
'Mechanicsville'. In my spare time, I would contemplate the irrationality/transcendence
of pi, the distribution of prime numbers, properties of the Riemann zeta function,
and other number theoretic topics. My parents and grandparents were extremely supportive
of my ambition, and I owe much of my happiness and academic success to them. I obtained
my PhD from the University of Arizona in 2012 under the supervision of William McCallum.
I met the love of my life Dana in Tucson, and we married soon after moving to Santa
Barbara, California, where I held a postdoctoral position for 3 years. We now have
children Lukas & Quinn and are very excited to be in the Bay Area.
Please see my external website.
