Sarah-Marie Belcastro (aka sarah-marie belcastro,[1] born 1970) is an American mathematician and book author. She is an instructor at the Art of Problem Solving Online School[2] and is the director of MathILy,[3] a residential math summer program hosted at Bryn Mawr. Although her doctoral research was in algebraic geometry, she has also worked extensively in topological graph theory.[4] She is known for and has written extensively about mathematical knitting, and has co-edited three books on fiber mathematics.[5] She herself exclusively uses the form "sarah-marie belcastro".[6][1]
Biography
editBelcastro was born in San Diego, CA in 1970, and grew up mostly in Andover, MA, and in Dubuque, IA.[7] She earned a B.S. (1991) in Mathematics and Astronomy from Haverford College, an M.S. (1993) from The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a Ph.D. (1997) there for a thesis on “Picard Lattices of Families of K3 Surfaces” done with Igor Dolgachev.[8]
Since 2012, she has also been an instructor at the Art of Problem Solving Online School.[2] Since 2013, she has been the director of Bryn Mawr College's residential summer program MathILy (serious Mathematics Infused with Levity).[3] She is also a guest faculty member at Sarah Lawrence College.
She was Associate Editor for The College Mathematics Journal (2003—2019). She has also lectured frequently at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst since 2012.[9][10]
Selected publications
editBooks
edit- Discrete Mathematics with Ducks (AK Peters, 2012; 2nd ed., CRC Press, 2019, ISBN 978-1-315-16767-1).[11]
- Figuring Fibers, edited by belcastro and Carolyn Yackel, Providence, RI: American Mathematics Society, 2018.[12]
- Crafting by Concepts: fiber arts and mathematics, edited by belcastro and Yackel. AK Peters, 2011.[13]
- Making Mathematics with Needlework: Ten Papers and Ten Projects, edited by belcastro and Yackel. Wellesley, MA: AK Peters, 2007.[14]
Journal papers
edit- belcastro, sarah-marie (2021). "Color-induced subgraphs dual to Hamilton cycles of embedded cubic graphs" (PDF). Australasian Journal of Combinatorics. 81: 319–333. MR 4312576.
- belcastro, sarah-marie (2016). "Small snarks and 6-chromatic triangulations on the Klein bottle" (PDF). Australasian Journal of Combinatorics. 65: 232–250. MR 3509660.
- belcastro, sarah-marie; Haas, Ruth (2015). "Triangle-free uniquely 3-edge colorable cubic graphs". Contributions to Discrete Mathematics. 10 (2): 39–44. arXiv:1508.06934. doi:10.11575/cdm.v10i2.62320. MR 3499076.
- Albertson, Michael O.; Alpert, Hannah; belcastro, sarah-marie; Haas, Ruth (2010). "Grünbaum colorings of toroidal triangulations". Journal of Graph Theory. 63 (1): 68–81. arXiv:0805.0394. doi:10.1002/jgt.20406. MR 2590325. S2CID 7177893.
- belcastro, sarah-marie (2009). "Every topological surface can be knit: a proof". Journal of Mathematics and the Arts. 3 (2): 67–83. doi:10.1080/17513470902896561. MR 2553752. S2CID 120714012.
- belcastro, sarah-marie; Kaminski, Jackie (2007). "Families of dot-product snarks on orientable surfaces of low genus". Graphs and Combinatorics. 23 (3): 229–240. doi:10.1007/s00373-007-0729-9. MR 2320577. S2CID 31347628.
- belcastro, sarah-marie; Hull, Thomas C. (2002). "Modelling the folding of paper into three dimensions using affine transformations". Linear Algebra and Its Applications. 348 (1–3): 273–282. doi:10.1016/S0024-3795(01)00608-5. MR 1902132.
References
edit- ^ a b "Mathematics prize goes to University of Chicago's Hannah Alpert". UChicago News. November 18, 2009. Retrieved 2023-11-03.
advisers include sarah-marie belcastro (lowercase is the proper spelling of her name)
- ^ a b AoPS Online Art of Problem Solving School
- ^ a b MathILy Bryn Mawr College
- ^ MathILy people MathILy.org
- ^ Adventures in Mathematical Knitting by Sarah-Marie Belcastro, American Scientist, 2021
- ^ "From the colleges" (PDF). Newsletter of the Northeastern Section of the MAA. Vol. 23, no. 2. Fall 2001. pp. 16–18.
sarah-marie belcastro (she prefers the lower case spelling of her name) joined the Bowdoin Math Department this fall as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics
- ^ dr. sarah-marie belcastro toroidalsnark.net
- ^ Sarah-Marie Belcastro at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Curriculum Vitae September 2021
- ^ Faculty News Briefs University of Massachusetts, Amherst, June 2012
- ^ Reviews of Discrete Mathematics with Ducks:
- Ashbacher, Charles (August 2012). "Review". MAA Reviews.
- Székely, László A. zbMATH. Zbl 1250.05001.
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- ^ Reviews of Figuring Fibers:
- Collins, Julia (July 2020). "Review" (PDF). London Mathematical Society Newsletter (489): 39–40. Zbl 07456182.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: Zbl (link) - Torrence, Eve (October 2019). Journal of Mathematics and the Arts. 14 (3): 283–284. doi:10.1080/17513472.2019.1666459. S2CID 209985329.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - West, Mckenzie (August 2019). "Review". MAA Reviews.
- Wilmer, Elizabeth (September 2020). "Or/And: A Review of Figuring Fibers" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 67 (8): 1158–1161. doi:10.1090/noti2125. S2CID 225196886.
- Collins, Julia (July 2020). "Review" (PDF). London Mathematical Society Newsletter (489): 39–40. Zbl 07456182.
- ^ Reviews of Crafting by Concepts:
- Babenko, Yuliya (March 2012). Journal of Mathematics and the Arts. 6 (1): 53–54. doi:10.1080/17513472.2011.642264. S2CID 123015866.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Fortune, Mary (July 2013). The Mathematical Gazette. 97 (539): 382–383. doi:10.1017/S0025557200006422. JSTOR 24496858. S2CID 233362317.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Habermann, Katharina (December 2011). Mitteilungen der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung. 19 (4): 216. doi:10.1515/dmvm-2011-0090. S2CID 177386607.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Weinhold, Marcia Weller (November 2012). The Mathematics Teacher. 106 (4): 318. doi:10.5951/mathteacher.106.4.0318. JSTOR 10.5951/mathteacher.106.4.0318.
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- Babenko, Yuliya (March 2012). Journal of Mathematics and the Arts. 6 (1): 53–54. doi:10.1080/17513472.2011.642264. S2CID 123015866.
- ^ Reviews of Making Mathematics with Needlework:
- Atherley, Kate (Spring 2009). "Review". Cool stuff!. Knitty.
- Cross, Alison (February 2008). "Review" (PDF). The London Mathematical Society Newsletter. 367: 28.
- Fisher, Gwen (June 2008). Journal of Mathematics and the Arts. 2 (2): 101–103. doi:10.1080/17513470802222827. S2CID 121469834.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Fortune, Mary (July 2010). The Mathematical Gazette. 94 (530): 378–379. doi:10.1017/s0025557200007014. JSTOR 25759714. S2CID 193323181.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Goetting, Mary (November 2008). The Mathematics Teacher. 102 (4): 319. JSTOR 20876356.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Hsu, Pao-Sheng (January–February 2010). "Review". AWM Newsletter. 40 (1). Association for Women in Mathematics: 20–23.
- Peeva, Ketty. zbMATH. Zbl 1142.00003.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Phillips, Anna Lena (2008). "Picking up stitches". American Scientist. 96 (3): 259. doi:10.1511/2008.71.3591.
- Sipics, Michelle (December 2007). "Math in a material world". SIAM News.
External links
edit- Official home page
- Sarah-Marie Belcastro publications indexed by Google Scholar