Sarah-Marie Belcastro Explained
Sarah-Marie Belcastro (aka sarah-marie belcastro, born 1970) is an American mathematician and book author. She is an instructor at the Art of Problem Solving Online School and is the director of MathILy, 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.[1] She is known for and has written extensively about mathematical knitting, and has co-edited three books on fiber mathematics.[2] She herself exclusively uses the form "sarah-marie belcastro".[3] [4]
Biography
Belcastro was born in San Diego, CA in 1970, and grew up mostly in Andover, MA, and in Dubuque, IA.[5] 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.[6]
Since 2012, she has also been an instructor at the Art of Problem Solving Online School.[7] Since 2013, she has been the director of Bryn Mawr College's residential summer program MathILy (serious Mathematics Infused with Levity).[8] 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
Books
- Discrete Mathematics with Ducks (AK Peters, 2012; 2nd ed., CRC Press, 2019,).[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
- belcastro . sarah-marie . . 4312576 . 319–333 . Color-induced subgraphs dual to Hamilton cycles of embedded cubic graphs . 81 . 2021.
- belcastro . sarah-marie . . 3509660 . 232–250 . Small snarks and 6-chromatic triangulations on the Klein bottle . 65 . 2016.
- belcastro . sarah-marie . Haas . Ruth . Ruth Haas . 1508.06934 . 10.11575/cdm.v10i2.62320 . free . 2 . Contributions to Discrete Mathematics . 3499076 . 39–44 . Triangle-free uniquely 3-edge colorable cubic graphs . 10 . 2015.
- Albertson . Michael O. . Alpert . Hannah . belcastro . sarah-marie . Haas . Ruth . Ruth Haas . 0805.0394 . 10.1002/jgt.20406 . 1 . . 2590325 . 68–81 . Grünbaum colorings of toroidal triangulations . 63 . 2010. 7177893 .
- belcastro . sarah-marie . 10.1080/17513470902896561 . 2 . . 2553752 . 67–83 . Every topological surface can be knit: a proof . 3 . 2009. 120714012 .
- belcastro . sarah-marie . Kaminski . Jackie . 10.1007/s00373-007-0729-9 . 3 . . 2320577 . 229–240 . Families of dot-product snarks on orientable surfaces of low genus . 23 . 2007. 31347628 .
- belcastro . sarah-marie . Hull . Thomas C. . Tom Hull (mathematician) . 10.1016/S0024-3795(01)00608-5 . . 1902132 . 273–282 . Modelling the folding of paper into three dimensions using affine transformations . 348 . 2002. 1–3 . free .
External links
Notes and References
- http://www.mathily.org/dramper.html MathILy people
- https://www.americanscientist.org/article/adventures-in-mathematical-knitting Adventures in Mathematical Knitting
- From the colleges. Newsletter of the Northeastern Section of the MAA. Fall 2001. 23. 2. 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.
- Web site: Mathematics prize goes to University of Chicago's Hannah Alpert. UChicago News. 2023-11-03. November 18, 2009. advisers include sarah-marie belcastro (lowercase is the proper spelling of her name).
- http://www.toroidalsnark.net/history.html dr. sarah-marie belcastro
- https://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=14777 Sarah-Marie Belcastro
- https://artofproblemsolving.com/school AoPS Online
- http://www.mathily.org MathILy
- http://www.toroidalsnark.net/CV.html Curriculum Vitae
- https://www.math.umass.edu/news-briefs?page=11 Faculty News Briefs
- Reviews of Discrete Mathematics with Ducks:
- Web site: Charles. Ashbacher. Review. MAA Reviews. August 2012.
- László A.. Székely. none. zbMATH. 1250.05001.
- Reviews of Figuring Fibers:
- Collins. Julia. July 2020. 489. London Mathematical Society Newsletter. 39–40. Review. 07456182.
- Torrence. Eve. Eve Torrence. October 2019. 10.1080/17513472.2019.1666459. 3. Journal of Mathematics and the Arts. 283–284. none. 14. 209985329 .
- Web site: Mckenzie. West. Review. MAA Reviews. August 2019.
- Wilmer. Elizabeth. Elizabeth Wilmer. September 2020. 8. Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 1158–1161. Or/And: A Review of Figuring Fibers. 67. 10.1090/noti2125 . 225196886 .
- Reviews of Crafting by Concepts:
- Babenko. Yuliya. March 2012. 10.1080/17513472.2011.642264. 1. Journal of Mathematics and the Arts. 53–54. none. 6. 123015866 .
- Fortune. Mary. July 2013. 539. The Mathematical Gazette. 24496858. 382–383. none. 97. 10.1017/S0025557200006422 . 233362317 .
- Habermann. Katharina. December 2011. 10.1515/dmvm-2011-0090. 4. Mitteilungen der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung. 216. none. 19. 177386607 . free.
- Weinhold. Marcia Weller. November 2012. 10.5951/mathteacher.106.4.0318. 4. The Mathematics Teacher. 10.5951/mathteacher.106.4.0318. 318. none. 106.
- Reviews of Making Mathematics with Needlework:
