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. She is known for and has written extensively about mathematical knitting, and has co-edited three books on fiber mathematics. She herself exclusively uses the form "sarah-marie belcastro".
Biography
Belcastro was born in San Diego, CA in 1970, and grew up mostly in Andover, MA, and in Dubuque, IA. 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.
Since 2012, she has also been an instructor at the Art of Problem Solving Online School. Since 2013, she has been the director of Bryn Mawr College's residential summer program MathILy (serious Mathematics Infused with Levity). 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.
Selected publications
Books
- Discrete Mathematics with Ducks (AK Peters, 2012; 2nd ed., CRC Press, 2019, ISBN 978-1-315-16767-1).
- Figuring Fibers, edited by belcastro and Carolyn Yackel, Providence, RI: American Mathematics Society, 2018.
- Crafting by Concepts: fiber arts and mathematics, edited by belcastro and Yackel. AK Peters, 2011.
- Making Mathematics with Needlework: Ten Papers and Ten Projects, edited by belcastro and Yackel. Wellesley, MA: AK Peters, 2007.
Journal papers
- 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
- ^ "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)
- ^ AoPS Online Art of Problem Solving School
- ^ 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.
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: 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.
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: 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.
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: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Fortune, Mary (July 2013). The Mathematical Gazette. 97 (539): 382–383. doi:10.1017/S0025557200006422. JSTOR 24496858. S2CID 233362317.
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: 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.
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: 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.
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: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Fortune, Mary (July 2010). The Mathematical Gazette. 94 (530): 378–379. doi:10.1017/s0025557200007014. JSTOR 25759714. S2CID 193323181.
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: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Goetting, Mary (November 2008). The Mathematics Teacher. 102 (4): 319. JSTOR 20876356.
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: 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.
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: 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
- Official home page
- Sarah-Marie Belcastro publications indexed by Google Scholar