Dr. Paul Bialek is the Faculty Athletics Representative for Trinity International University. A professor of mathematics at TIU since 1995, Bialek also serves as the chair of the mathematics department on campus.
Prior to coming to Trinity, Dr. Bialek taught as a visiting assistant professor of mathematics at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California. He also served as a mathematics instructor at the College of Wooster in Ohio and as a teaching assistant at the University of Illinois.Â
Dr. Bialek’s research interests include the history of mathematics, number theory and the Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler, especially the translation of Euler’s works from Latin to English. Besides Latin, he has studied Spanish, New Testament Greek, Old Testament Hebrew, Chinese, and French.. He co-authored articles in Convergence, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, International Mathematics Research Notices and Canadian Mathematical Society Conference Proceedings.Â
Dr. Bialek is a member of the Mathematical Association of America, the Association of Christians in the Mathematical Sciences, the National Association of Parliamentarians, the Euler Society, and the Associated Colleges of the Chicago Area, for which he served as Chair of the Mathematics Division in 2001-12. Since 2001, he has graded AP Calculus exams for the College Board. Dr. Bialek is currently serving as chair of the Mathematics and Computer Information Systems.
Bialek earned his bachelor’s, master’s, and PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
