My name is Timothy Goldberg.  I am a Professor of Mathematics and the Mathematics Program Coordinator at Lenoir-Rhyne University in Hickory, North Carolina.

I earned my Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics in 2006 and 2010, respectively, from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.  My advisor was Reyer Sjamaar, and my thesis is titled Hamiltonian Actions in Integral Kähler and Generalized Complex Geometry.

Before that, I attended Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, from which I graduated in 2002 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics.  My advisor was Ethan Bloch, and my senior project is titled Combinatorial Laplacians of Simplicial Complexes.

My mathematical interests are still primarily in geometry, but have expanded considerably since graduate school. My main interest recently is in recreational mathematics, which is less a field than it is a genre of mathematics. Recreational mathematics is inspired by deep ideas that are hidden in puzzles, games, and other forms of play. (Robert Vallin, founding chair of the Special Interest Group of the MAA on Recreational Mathematics, quoted in "Three New SIGMAAs Formed" by Jaqueline A. Jensen-Vallin, MAA Focus, April/May 2018.)