Skip to Content

ALLENDALE CAMPUS CLOSURE: USC Salkehatchie's Allendale campus will be closed on Thursday, November 21 due to scheduled waterline maintenance by the Town of Allendale. As a result, all Allendale campus, in-person classes on both Wednesday, November 20 and Thursday, November 21 will be canceled. Online courses will continue as scheduled. Professors for in-person, on-campus classes will notify students of alternative class assignments. The Walterboro campus will remain open, and classes on that campus will meet as planned. USC Salkehatchie apologizes for any inconvenience this may cause and appreciates your understanding.

Faculty and Staff

Wei-Kai Lai, Ph.D.

Title: Professor of Mathematics
Division Chair of Math, Sciences, and Professional Studies
Department: Math
USC Salkehatchie
Email: laiw@mailbox.sc.edu
Phone: 843-782-8611 Walterboro or 803-812-7346 Allendale
Office: Room 101, Nursing/Science Building (Walterboro), Room 115, No.1, Spruce Hall (Allendale)
Resources: American Mathematics Society(AMS)
Mathematical Association of America(MAA)
Wei-Kai Lai

Education

Ph.D. of Mathematics, 2008,  University of Mississippi
M.S. of Mathematics, 2000, National Taiwan Normal University
B.S. of Mathematics, 1998, National Taiwan University

Selected publications:

Lai, W.K., and Risher, J., Generalizing Inequalities Using Power Series Approach, International Journal of Mathematics and Its Applications, 8 (2), 2020, 107-112. 

Lai, W.K., Generalization of an Inequality with Sum of Fractions, International Journal of Mathematics and Its Applications, 6 (3), 2018, 227-230. 

Lai, W.K., and Risher, J., Generalization of a Class of Cyclic Inequalities, International Mathematical Forum, 13 (3), 2018, 137-145.

Lai, W.K., and Risher, J., Generalization of Two Inequalities Involving AM, GM, and HM, International Mathematical Forum, 11 (21), 2016, 1027-1035. 

Lai, W.K., and Kim, E., Some Inequalities Involving Geometric and Harmonic Means, International Mathematical Forum, 11 (4), 2016, 163-169. 

Lai, W.K., and Kalacanic, C., On Power Tower of Integers, International Journal of Mathematics and Statistics Invention, 3 (8), 2015, 29-33. 

Rufty, C., and Lai, W.K., Solving Simple Japanese Ladder Games, Journal of the South Carolina Academy of Science, 13 (2), Oct., 2015, 1-4.

Lai, W.K., Rearrangement Inequality and Chebyshev’s Sum Inequality on Positive Tensor Products of Orlicz Sequence Space with Banach Lattice, Journal of Mathematics and System Science 4 (8), 2014, 574-578. 

Lai, W.K., A Rearrangement Inequality on Positive Tensor Products of Banach Lattices, Journal of Mathematics and System Science 4 (6), 2014, 387-390.

Bu, Q., Buskes, G, and Lai, W.K., The Radon-Nikodym Property for Tensor Products of Banach Lattices II, Positivity 12 (2008), 45-54 

 

Awards:

  • 2021 Chris P. Plyler Excellence in Service Award, recipient
  • 2020 USC Salkehatchie Faculty Award in Service, recipient
  • 2018 Denise Shaw Excellence in Research Award, recipient  
  • 2016 USC Salkehatchie Service Award, recipient 
  • 2013 John J. Duffy Excellence in Teaching Award, recipient
  • 2012 USC Salkehatchie Professor of the Year, recipient

Research

Banach Space Theory, Positive Operator, Mathematical Inequalities, Recreational Mathematics

Interests

  • classical music
  • cooking 

USC Salkehatchie

©