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Sarah-Marie Belcastro (aka sarah-marie belcastro, born 1970 in San Diego) is an American mathematician and book author. She is an instructor at the The Art of Problem Solving Online School[1] and is the director of Bryn Mawr's residential summer program MathILy.[2] Her primary mathematical research area is Algebraic Geometry.[3] She is known for and has written extensively about mathematical knitting, and has co-edited three books on fiber mathematics.[4] She herself exclusively uses the form "sarah-marie belcastro".[5][6]

Biography

Belcastro was born in San Diego, CA in 1970, and grew up mostly in Andover, MA, and in Dubuque, IA.[6] 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.[7]

Since 2012, she has also been an instructor at the The Art of Problem Solving Online School.[1] Since 2013, she he been the director of Bryn Mawr's residential summer program MathILy (serious Mathematics Infused with Levity).[2] 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.[8][9]

Books

  • Discrete Mathematics with Ducks (AK Peters, 2012; 2nd ed., CRC Press, 2019, ISBN 978-1-315-16767-1).[10]
  • Figuring Fibers, edited by belcastro, s-m and Yackel, C. A., Providence, RI: American Mathematics Society, 2018.[11]
  • Crafting by Concepts: fiber arts and mathematics, edited by belcastro, s-m and Yackel, C. A., Natick, MA: AK Peters, 2011.[12]
  • Making Mathematics with Needlework: Ten Papers and Ten Projects, edited by belcastro, s. m. and Yackel, C. A.. Wellesley, MA: AK Peters, 2007.[13]

Selected papers

  • "Color-induced subgraphs dual to Hamilton cycles of embedded cubic graphs", Australas. J. Combin., 81(2) (2021), 319–333.
  • "Small snarks and 6-chromatic triangulations on the Klein bottle", Australas. J. Combin., 65(3) (2016), 232–250.
  • "Triangle-free Uniquely 3-Edge Colorable Cubic Graphs", with R. Haas, Contributions to Discrete Math., 10(2) (2015), 39–44.
  • "Grünbaum Colorings of Toroidal Triangulations", with M. O. Albertson, H. Alpert, and R. Haas, Journal of Graph Theory, 63(1) January 2010, 68–81.
  • "Every Topological Surface Can Be Knit: A Proof", Journal of Mathematics and the Arts, 3(2) June 2009, 67–83.
  • "Families of Dot-Product Snarks on Orientable Surfaces of Low Genus", with J. Kaminski, Graphs and Combinatorics, 23(3) June 2007, 229–240.
  • "Modelling the Folding of Paper into Three Dimensions", with T.C. Hull, Linear Algebra and Its Applications, 348 (2002), 273–282.

References

  1. ^ a b AoPS Online Art of Problem Solving School
  2. ^ a b MathILy Bryn Mawr College
  3. ^ MathILy people MathILy.org
  4. ^ Adventures in Mathematical Knitting by Sarah-Marie Belcastro, American Scientist, 2021
  5. ^ website of dr. sarah-marie belcastro
  6. ^ a b dr. sarah-marie belcastro toroidalsnark.net
  7. ^ Sarah-Marie Belcastro at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  8. ^ Curriculum Vitae September 2021
  9. ^ Faculty News Briefs University of Massachusetts, Amherst, June 2012
  10. ^ Reviews of Discrete Mathematics with Ducks:
  11. ^ Reviews of Figuring Fibers:
  12. ^ Reviews of Crafting by Concepts:
  13. ^ Reviews of Making Mathematics with Needlework:
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