adam bowers earned his ph.d. in mathematics from the university of connecticut in 2007 in the area of functional analysis. bowers has over 20 years of classroom experience teaching mathematics at the university level.  he has taught a wide range of mathematics courses, including precalculus, calculus, probability, statistics, differential equations, complex analysis, the history of mathematics, and more. in addition to his classroom experience, bowers has authored and co-authored textbooks in such subjects as functional analysis, topology, and calculus.