Who we are

Plaut Pedagogy, LLC was founded by Dr. Conrad Plaut in 2025 in order to share his new textbook and micro-application content that he developed for teaching linear algebra to college students. After successful trial runs in university classrooms, Dr. Plaut saw great potential for the combined textbook and accompanying software, and he continued collaborating with partner programmers at MathMentorApp, LLC to formalize access to these resources.

Dr. Conrad Plaut is a mathematics professor and former department head at the University of Tennessee. He earned his BA from Guilford College in Mathematics and English, after which he accepted a Fulbright Scholarship to study in Zagreb, Croatia. Plaut earned his PhD in Mathematics from the University of Maryland. At the University of Tennessee he has taught more than two dozen different courses, from freshman calculus to graduate topics courses. Plaut has been awarded over $1.7 million in grants and awards, primarily from the National Science Foundation, to support his mathematical research, conferences he has co-organized, and programs he has organized for students. The latter include a scholarship program for students from the Appalachian region majoring in math and computer science, a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program, and the University of Tennessee Math Honors Program, for which he served as founding director. Plaut has given around 70 research talks in 11 countries, and has over 700 citations to his research papers (source: Google Scholar).

Dr. Plaut’s extensive experience teaching mathematics provides the expertise needed to integrate new technologies into learning high-level mathematics. He understands the value of traditional approaches as well as the benefits modernizing practices can bring. Plaut Pedagogy’s resources aim to provide students and instructors a proficient and personalized option for studying high-level mathematics.