Hi! My name is Scott Hyde. I am a Professor of Mathematics and Statistics in the Faculty of Math and Computing (other universities would call it College) at Brigham Young University -- Hawaii Locally, I am a member of the Mathematics Department. Brigham Young University -- Hawaii is located in the small town of Laie, Hawaii. Here's my contact information:

• Office: SCB-332
• Phone: +1 808 675 3308
• Email: hydes 'at' byuh 'dot' edu
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I completed my Ph.D. in Statistics at Montana State University in August 2004. My dissertation is entitled "Robust Methods for Multivariate Linear Models with Spectral Models for Scatter Matrices".

The purpose of this website is to share educational materials with my students here at BYU-Hawaii. I've been doing this for many years!

My research interests (when I have time!) include Multivariate Statistics, the R statistical software package, RStudio, Linear Algebra (and Linear Models in Statistics), Numerical Analysis and math computation. I also enjoy programming and trying to make my life a bit easier with computers. The most important part of my life is my wife and my seven kids! Without them, I would not be the person I am today.

I found that I am descended from Abu ʿAli al-Husayn (Avicenna) ibn Sina, a scholar from before 1068!! It's pretty fascinating researching your own "Math" geneology. The relationships listed are "Thesis Advisor -- PhD Student". I also found that Leonard Euler, Jacob Bernoulli, and others were my anscestors too! It's nice to be related to someone famous! Click on the icon below to look at "The Mathematics Geneology Project". It's pretty cool!

2025-10-27 I redid my search of the earliest "ancestor" in mathematics. They now have advisors in for ʿAli al-Husayn (Avicenna) ibn Sina, so I can go farther! His advisors listed are:

• Advisor 1: Abu Abdallah Al-Husayn ibn Ibrahim al-Natili
• Advisor 2: Abu Sahl 'Isa ibn Yahya al-Masihi
• Advisor 3: Abu Mansur al-Hasan ibn Nuh al-Qumri

In addition, I can claim Leonard Euler, Nicolaus Copernicus, Leonardo da Vinci (well he was the student of one of my ancestors (Johannes Argyropoulos). Pretty strange isn't it!