Professor of Mathematics
M.Sc., Nicolaus Copernicus University; Ph.D., Clemson University
Profile
Dr. Art Gorka is a Professor of Mathematics at Erskine College in South Carolina. He holds an MSc from Nicolaus Copernicus University in Poland and a Ph.D. from Clemson University. He has been teaching math at colleges and universities in Germany, England, Thailand, and the U.S., and has been with Erskine College since 2004.
His research specialty is in Nonlinear Optimization, but his interests also include Mathematical Analysis, Dynamical Systems and Chaos Theory, Fractals, Probability and Statistics, Geometry, Astronomy and Cosmology, History of Mathematics, and Teaching of Mathematics. While not in the classroom, he is active writing math research papers, attending and presenting at math conferences, and organizing and presenting popular and invited talks.
Publications
Some of his publications and talks include:
- From Ancient Mathematics to exploring the Outer Space, How Ancient Mathematics Built the Modern World, an invited STEM talk, Lampang Kanlayanee School, Lampang, Thailand, 2026
- Transformations of solution semantics of interval equations system, Elsevier, Information Sciences, 682, (2024), article 121260
- Nicolaus Copernicus and the Scientific Revolution, a STEM invited talk, Kamnoetvidya Science Academy, Thailand, 2024
- Special Tolerance Left Solution for Course Assignment Problem with Interval Workload Constraints, in Applications of Fuzzy Techniques, Springer Nature book series, NAFIPS 2022, Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems LNNS Vol.500 (2023), ISBN: 978-3-031-16037-0
- Tolerance and Control Solutions of Two-Sided Interval Linear System and Their Applications, in Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems. IPMU 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science book series, vol.1239 (2020), pp 436-448. Springer Cham, ISBN: 978-3-030-50152-5.
- Parallel direction finding sub-problem in Method of Feasible Directions, a contributed talk, 21st International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, 2012, Berlin, Germany
- Math Around Us, Convocation address, Erskine College. 2011
- Statistical Analysis of the Probabilistic Version of the Method of Feasible Directions, Proceedings of the 7th Hawaii International Conference on Statistics, Mathematics, and Related Fields (2008), ISSN: 1550-3747.
- Methods of Feasible Directions in the context of Nonlinear Optimization, invited Math Department Presentation, (2006) J.W.Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
- Probabilistic Version of the Method of Feasible Directions, Elsevier, Applied Mathematics and Computation, 130 (2002). ISSN:0096-3003
Personal Interests
Apart from mathematics Gorka enjoys outdoors and sports; he loves hiking and organizes hiking outings for students, faculty, and friends. He is a black belt in Judo and offers Judo classes for students. He also loves biking, is an active scuba diver, and a hang-gliding pilot. Gorka is an active member of St. Andrew Catholic Church, where he plays guitar in the church band and sings in the choir.
He enjoys trekking and travelling, he has been to over 45 countries on four continents, speaks fluently Polish, English, Russian, and German, knows some French and Spanish, and is currently learning Thai and Chinese.
At home, he loves spending time with his family, playing games, cooking and sharing the food with friends and having a good time together.
