Dr. John Charles Saunders
Assistant Professor

Departments / Programs
Degree Information
- PHD, University of Waterloo (2018)
- MS, University of Waterloo (2013)
- BS, Acadia University (2011)
Areas of Expertise
Analytic number theory, algebraic number theory, combinatorial number theory, elementary number theory, random graph theory, probability, combinatorics.
Biography
Hello, I'm J.C. Saunders and I'm an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Middle Tennessee State University. My research is in the areas of number theory, probability, and combinatorics. My Erdös number is 3. Before coming to MTSU, I was a postdoctoral associate at the University of Calgary in Canada and an Azrieli postdoctoral fellow at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel (under the superivision of Dr. Dang Khoa Nguyen and Dr. Daniel Berend...
Read More »Hello, I'm J.C. Saunders and I'm an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Middle Tennessee State University. My research is in the areas of number theory, probability, and combinatorics. My Erdös number is 3. Before coming to MTSU, I was a postdoctoral associate at the University of Calgary in Canada and an Azrieli postdoctoral fellow at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel (under the superivision of Dr. Dang Khoa Nguyen and Dr. Daniel Berend, respectively). I graduated with my PhD in pure mathematics from the University of Waterloo in 2018 under the supervision of Dr. Kevin Hare and Dr. Yu-Ru Liu. My office is in Room 203G in Kirskey Old Main on the MTSU campus and my email is John.Saunders@mtsu.edu. I'm originally from Nova Scotia, Canada. My pronouns are he, his, and him.
Publications
Links direct you to the arXiv versions.
Liu, Yu-Ru, and J.C. Saunders. ``Sieve methods in random graph theory." Resubmitted with revisions, 15 pgs. (arxiv appendix version 86 pgs.), preprint.
Bell, Jason, Keira Gunn, Dang Khoa Nguyen, and J.C. Saunders. ``A general criterion for the Polya-Carlson dichotomy and application." Accepted by Transactions of the American Mathema...
Read More »Links direct you to the arXiv versions.
Liu, Yu-Ru, and J.C. Saunders. ``Sieve methods in random graph theory." Resubmitted with revisions, 15 pgs. (arxiv appendix version 86 pgs.), preprint.
Bell, Jason, Keira Gunn, Dang Khoa Nguyen, and J.C. Saunders. ``A general criterion for the Polya-Carlson dichotomy and application." Accepted by Transactions of the American Mathematical Society.
Saunders, J.C. ``The number of $k$-tons in the coupon collector problem." Accepted by Journal of Applied Probability, Manuscript \#: AP-18454, 16 pgs.
Ching, Hsin-Yun, Rigoberto Florez, Florian Luca, Antara Mukherjee, and J.C. Saunders. ``Primes and composites in the determinant Hosoya triangle." The Fibonacci Quarterly 60.5 (2022): 56-110.
Saunders, J.C. ``The Euler totient function on Lucas sequences." International Journal of Number Theory, doi: 10.1142/S1793042123500148
Florez, Rigoberto, and J.C. Saunders. ``Irreducibility of generalized Fibonacci polynomials." Integers 22 (2022): 1-16.
Barak-Pelleg, Dina, Daniel Berend, and J.C. Saunders. "A model of random industrial SAT." Theoretical Computer Science 910 (2022): 91-112.
Saunders, J.C. ``Density of sequences of the form x_n=f(n)^n in [0,1]." Acta Arithmetica 201 (2021): 165-175.
Hare, Kevin, and J.C. Saunders. ``Generalised Fibonacci sequences constructed from balanced words." Journal of Number Theory 231 (2022): 349-377.
Saunders, J.C. ``Diophantine equations involving the Euler totient function." Journal of Number Theory 209 (2020): 347-358.
Hare, Kevin G., and J.C. Saunders. ``On (a,b) pairs in random Fibonacci sequences." Journal of Number Theory 190 (2018): 352-366.
Saunders, J.C. ``Mahler measure of ``almost" reciprocal polynomials." Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society (2018): 1-7.
Saunders, J.C. ``Sums of digits in q-ary expansions." International Journal of Number Theory 11.02 (2015): 593-611.
Mendivil, Franklin, and J.C. Saunders ``On Minkowski measurability." Fractals 19.4 (2011): 455-467.
Presentations
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Awards
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Courses
I am teaching Math 3460 Foundation of Higher Mathematics and Math 6602 Problems in Mathematics-Number Theory this Spring 2023 term.