A Plea for Finite Calculus

Abstract

Michael Schmitz ([email protected]) is a lecturer in mathematics at the University of Flensburg, where he received his Ph.D. in 2014. At the small university in the northernmost city of Germany he is busy educating ongoing primary and secondary mathematics teachers. Together with befriended mathematicians from several countries he regularly organizes and runs math camps for school kids in different locations. When he is not doing or teaching mathematics, he likes traveling, long distance running, reading, and spending time with his four girls (wife and three daughters).