Stephen Davies | Computer Science Professor

Welcome! I'm a lucky professor in the Computer Science department at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia. My goal here is to connect with students in a myriad of different ways, investing in their lives and helping them to discover who they are and who they want to be.

I'm also the creator of the All The Math educational materials, and the Position of Privilege blog.

Open Source Books

All of my books are completely open-source and forever free. Each one was painstakingly written after having taught the corresponding UMW course at least four times. My goal is to engage the reader with the magic of the subject matter. Enjoy!

A Cool Brisk Walk Through Discrete Mathematics

A Quick Steep Climb Up Linear Algebra

Blueprints (object-oriented design)

The Crystal Ball Instruction Manual, Vol. I

The Crystal Ball Instruction Manual, Vol. II

Recent Publications

Davies, S., Peura, H., "The Interaction Between Heterogeneous Voting Strategies and Dynamic Vote-Seeking Campaigns: an Agent-Based Model", Presented at The 2024 Annual Modeling and Simulation Conference (ANNSIM 2024), Washington, D.C., USA, May 22, 2024.
Mittereder, J., Carroll, R., Frulla, B., Davies, S., "Exploring the Impact of Social Network Density and Agent Openness on Societal Polarization", Presented at The Computational Social Science Society of the Americas annual conference, Santa Fe, New Mexico (virtual), Nov. 4–7, 2021.
Venkatachalapathy, R., Davies, S., Nehrboss, W., "Wealth dynamics in the presence of network structure and primitive cooperation", Presented at The Computational Social Science Society of the Americas annual conference, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Oct. 24–27, 2019.
Davies, S., "The Twin Impact of Homophily and Accessibility on Ideological Polarization", Presented at The Computational Social Science Society of the Americas annual conference, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Oct. 19–22, 2017.
Davies, S., Zontine, H., "The Surprising Effect of Implementation Choices on the Rate of Convergence of Opinion Dynamics Models", Presented at The Computational Social Science Society of the Americas annual conference, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Nov. 17–20, 2016.