Ryan Timmons’s Student Web Page

Contrary to popular belief, a name ending with an ‘s’ does not warrant the ‘s’ be included as a part of the name’s possessive form. According to The Elements of Style by E.B. White,

“Form the possessive singular of nouns by adding ‘s. Follow this rule whatever the final consonant. Thus write,

‘Charles’s friend
Burns’s poems
the witch’s malice’”

(emphasis added). Thus, the above usage, “…Timmons’s…”, is correct.

Other Links of Relevance

• Ganon.com, my centralized home page
• My Staff Home Page
• My CS Department Home Page
• School Schedules

Selected Papers

• Analysis of Sibilance and Inflection in the Western Homosexual Male (PDF)
• Foucault’s Panopticism in the MySpace Online Community (PDF)
• (a somewhat latent) Analysis of James Baldwin’s Another Country in the setting of a group presentation analysis (PDF)
• “Short Critical Analysis of Foucalt’s History of Sexuality” (PDF)
• Analyzing Deluze and Guattari on a domain of recursive texts (PDF)

Selected Projects

Mathematical Modeling of Common Scheduling

(For Math 381, Winter 2007)

• Project Proposal (PDF)
• PDF Writeup

Other School Projects, Files, and Links

• Physics 122 Files (old exams, etc)
• Groups of Order 4 (simple proof that all groups of order 4 are either isomorphic to integers mod 4 or the direct product of the integers mod 2 with itself).