Dr. Angel Kumchev, a native of Bulgaria, received an undergraduate degree in Mathematics
from Plovdiv University (Bulgaria) and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University
of South Carolina. He joined Towson University in the Fall of 2005, after holding
postdoctoral positions at the University of Toronto (Canada) and the University of
Texas at Austin. His mathematical research is focused primarily on the distribution
of prime numbers and on additive prime number theory (i.e., problems of the Waring-Goldbach
type) and on the interface between number theory and harmonic analysis. Indeed, all
but a handful of his almost 50 research papers fall in at least one of those categories,
and many belong to both. He has done also work on exponential sums and their applications
to various questions in analytic number theory and discrete harmonic analysis and
on the occasional odd problem in other areas of mathematics (analysis, algebra) that
leads to questions of number theoretic nature.
Dr. Kumchev's teaching at Towson stretches from lower-level college mathematics, through
upper-level mathematics courses, to applied mathematics courses in our APIM graduate
program. In the past, he has been involved in revisions of our Calculus III course
and our senior seminar and in the maintenance of the Mathematica labs for the calculus sequence at TU. Through his work for TU’s Applied Mathematics Laboratory (AML), Dr. Kumchev has also been a contributor to the departmental push to engage
students in undergraduate research in mathematics. He served as faculty supervisor
of two AML teams (2010-2011 and 2012-2013) as well as the Lab’s director for five
years (2013-2018).
