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Sarah-Marie Belcastro

{{Short description|American mathematician and book author}}

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.[http://www.mathily.org/dramper.html MathILy people] MathILy.org She is known for and has written extensively about mathematical knitting, and has co-edited three books on fiber mathematics.[https://www.americanscientist.org/article/adventures-in-mathematical-knitting Adventures in Mathematical Knitting] by Sarah-Marie Belcastro, American Scientist, 2021 She herself exclusively uses the form "sarah-marie belcastro".{{cite magazine|url=http://sections.maa.org/northeastern/newsletter/Fall2001.pdf|magazine=Newsletter of the Northeastern Section of the MAA|date=Fall 2001|volume=23|issue=2|title=From the colleges|pages=16–18|quote=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}}{{cite web|url=https://news.uchicago.edu/story/mathematics-prize-goes-university-chicagos-hannah-alpert|title=Mathematics prize goes to University of Chicago's Hannah Alpert|work=UChicago News|access-date=2023-11-03|date=November 18, 2009|quote=advisers include sarah-marie belcastro (lowercase is the proper spelling of her name)}}

Biography

Belcastro was born in San Diego, California, in 1970, and grew up mostly in Andover, Massachusetts, and in Dubuque, Iowa.[http://www.toroidalsnark.net/history.html dr. sarah-marie belcastro] toroidalsnark.net 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.[https://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=14777 Sarah-Marie Belcastro] at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

Since 2012, she has also been an instructor at the Art of Problem Solving Online School.[https://artofproblemsolving.com/school AoPS Online] Art of Problem Solving School Since 2013, she has been the director of Bryn Mawr College's residential summer program MathILy (serious Mathematics Infused with Levity).[http://www.mathily.org MathILy] Bryn Mawr College 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.[http://www.toroidalsnark.net/CV.html Curriculum Vitae] September 2021[https://www.math.umass.edu/news-briefs?page=11 Faculty News Briefs] University of Massachusetts, Amherst, June 2012

Selected publications

=Books=

  • Discrete Mathematics with Ducks (AK Peters, 2012; 2nd ed., CRC Press, 2019, {{ISBN|978-1-315-16767-1}}).Reviews of Discrete Mathematics with Ducks:
  • {{cite web|first=Charles|last=Ashbacher|title=Review|work=MAA Reviews|url=https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/discrete-mathematics-with-ducks|date=August 2012}}
  • {{cite journal|first=László A.|last=Székely |title=Belcastro, Sarah-Marie: Discrete mathematics with ducks. (English) |journal=zbMATH|zbl=1250.05001}}

  • Figuring Fibers, edited by belcastro and Carolyn Yackel, Providence, R.I.: American Mathematics Society, 2018.Reviews of Figuring Fibers:
  • {{cite journal|last=Collins|first=Julia|date=July 2020|issue=489|journal=London Mathematical Society Newsletter|pages=39–40|title=Review|url=https://www.lms.ac.uk/sites/lms.ac.uk/files/files/NLMS_489_for%20web_0.pdf|zbl=07456182}}
  • {{cite journal|last=Torrence|first=Eve|author-link=Eve Torrence |title=Book Review: Figuring fibers, edited by Carolyn Yackel and sarah-marie belcastro, Providence, R.I., American Mathematical Society, 2018, 232 pp., US $40.00 |date=October 2019|doi=10.1080/17513472.2019.1666459|issue=3|journal=Journal of Mathematics and the Arts|pages=283–284 |volume=14|s2cid=209985329 }}
  • {{cite web|first=Mckenzie|last=West|title=Review|work=MAA Reviews|date=August 2019|url=https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/figuring-fibers}}
  • {{cite journal|last=Wilmer|first=Elizabeth|author-link=Elizabeth Wilmer|date=September 2020|issue=8|journal=Notices of the American Mathematical Society|pages=1158–1161|title=Or/And: A Review of Figuring Fibers|url=https://www.ams.org/notices/202008/rnoti-p1158.pdf|volume=67|doi=10.1090/noti2125 |s2cid=225196886 }}

  • Crafting by Concepts: fiber arts and mathematics, edited by belcastro and Yackel. AK Peters, 2011.Reviews of Crafting by Concepts:
  • {{cite journal|last=Babenko|first=Yuliya|date=March 2012 |title=Book Reviews: Crafting by concepts: fiber arts and mathematics, edited by sarah-marie belcastro and Carolyn Yackel |doi=10.1080/17513472.2011.642264|issue=1|journal=Journal of Mathematics and the Arts|pages=53–54 |volume=6|s2cid=123015866 }}
  • {{cite journal|last=Fortune|first=Mary |title=Reviews - Crafting by concepts, by Sarah-Marie Belcastro and Carolyn Yackel. Pp. 248. £25.99(hbk) 2011 ISBN: 978-1-56881-435-3 (A. K. Peters). |date=July 2013|issue=539|journal=The Mathematical Gazette|jstor=24496858|pages=382–383|volume=97|doi=10.1017/S0025557200006422 |s2cid=233362317 }}
  • {{cite journal|last=Habermann|first=Katharina|date=December 2011 |title=Sarah-Marie Belcastro und Carolyn Yackel: Crafting by Concepts - eine Buchbesprechung |doi=10.1515/dmvm-2011-0090|issue=4|journal=Mitteilungen der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung|pages=216|volume=19|s2cid=177386607 |doi-access=free}}
  • {{cite journal|last=Weinhold|first=Marcia Weller |title=For Your Information – November 2012 |date=November 2012|doi=10.5951/mathteacher.106.4.0318|issue=4|journal=The Mathematics Teacher|jstor=10.5951/mathteacher.106.4.0318|page=318 |volume=106}}

  • Making Mathematics with Needlework: Ten Papers and Ten Projects, edited by belcastro and Yackel. Wellesley, Mass.: AK Peters, 2007.Reviews of Making Mathematics with Needlework:
  • {{cite journal|last=Atherley|first=Kate|date=Spring 2009|department=Cool stuff!|journal=Knitty|title=Review|url=https://knitty.com/ISSUEspring09/FEATspr09stuff.php}}
  • {{cite journal|last=Cross|first=Alison|date=February 2008|journal=The London Mathematical Society Newsletter|page=28|title=Review|url=https://www.lms.ac.uk/sites/lms.ac.uk/files/files/367%20-%20February%202008.pdf|volume=367}}
  • {{cite journal|last=Fisher|first=Gwen |title=Book Reviews: Making Mathematics with Needlework: Ten Papers and Ten Projects |date=June 2008|doi=10.1080/17513470802222827|issue=2|journal=Journal of Mathematics and the Arts|pages=101–103|volume=2|s2cid=121469834 }}
  • {{cite journal|last=Fortune|first=Mary |title=Making mathematics with needlework, Sarah-Marie Belcastro and Carolyn Yackel (eds). Pp. 184. £18.50. 2008. ISBN 978-1-56881-331-8 (A. K. Peters).

|date=July 2010|doi=10.1017/s0025557200007014|issue=530|journal=The Mathematical Gazette|jstor=25759714|pages=378–379 |volume=94|s2cid=193323181 |doi-access=free}}

  • {{cite journal|last=Goetting|first=Mary |title=Review: Making Mathematics with Needlework by Sarah-Marie Belcastro, Carolyn Yackel Review by: Mary Goetting |date=November 2008|issue=4|journal=The Mathematics Teacher|jstor=20876356|page=319 |volume=102}}
  • {{cite journal|last=Hsu|first=Pao-Sheng|date=January–February 2010|issue=1|journal=AWM Newsletter|pages=20–23|publisher=Association for Women in Mathematics|title=Review|url=https://www.drivehq.com/folder/p8755087/1751135443.aspx|volume=40}}
  • {{cite journal|last=Peeva|first=Ketty |title=Belcastro, Sarah-Marie (ed.); Yackel, Carolyn (ed.) Making mathematics with needlework. Ten papers and ten projects. (English) |journal=zbMATH |zbl=1142.00003}}
  • {{cite journal|last=Phillips|first=Anna Lena|doi=10.1511/2008.71.3591|issue=3|journal=American Scientist|page=259|title=Picking up stitches|volume=96|year=2008}}
  • {{cite journal|last=Sipics|first=Michelle|date=December 2007|journal=SIAM News|title=Math in a material world|url=https://archive.siam.org/news/news.php?id=1254}}

=Journal papers=

  • {{cite journal

| last = belcastro | first = sarah-marie

| journal = Australasian Journal of Combinatorics

| mr = 4312576

| pages = 319–333

| title = Color-induced subgraphs dual to Hamilton cycles of embedded cubic graphs

| url = https://ajc.maths.uq.edu.au/pdf/79/ajc_v79_p461.pdf

| volume = 81

| year = 2021}}

  • {{cite journal

| last = belcastro | first = sarah-marie

| journal = Australasian Journal of Combinatorics

| mr = 3509660

| pages = 232–250

| title = Small snarks and 6-chromatic triangulations on the Klein bottle

| url = https://ajc.maths.uq.edu.au/pdf/65/ajc_v65_p232.pdf

| volume = 65

| year = 2016}}

  • {{cite journal

| last1 = belcastro | first1 = sarah-marie

| last2 = Haas | first2 = Ruth | author2-link = Ruth Haas

| arxiv = 1508.06934

| doi = 10.11575/cdm.v10i2.62320 | doi-access = free

| issue = 2

| journal = Contributions to Discrete Mathematics

| mr = 3499076

| pages = 39–44

| title = Triangle-free uniquely 3-edge colorable cubic graphs

| volume = 10

| year = 2015}}

  • {{cite journal

| last1 = Albertson | first1 = Michael O.

| last2 = Alpert | first2 = Hannah

| last3 = belcastro | first3 = sarah-marie

| last4 = Haas | first4 = Ruth | author4-link = Ruth Haas

| arxiv = 0805.0394

| doi = 10.1002/jgt.20406

| issue = 1

| journal = Journal of Graph Theory

| mr = 2590325

| pages = 68–81

| title = Grünbaum colorings of toroidal triangulations

| volume = 63

| year = 2010| s2cid = 7177893

}}

  • {{cite journal

| last = belcastro | first = sarah-marie

| doi = 10.1080/17513470902896561

| issue = 2

| journal = Journal of Mathematics and the Arts

| mr = 2553752

| pages = 67–83

| title = Every topological surface can be knit: a proof

| volume = 3

| year = 2009| s2cid = 120714012

}}

  • {{cite journal

| last1 = belcastro | first1 = sarah-marie

| last2 = Kaminski | first2 = Jackie

| doi = 10.1007/s00373-007-0729-9

| issue = 3

| journal = Graphs and Combinatorics

| mr = 2320577

| pages = 229–240

| title = Families of dot-product snarks on orientable surfaces of low genus

| volume = 23

| year = 2007| s2cid = 31347628

}}

  • {{cite journal

| last1 = belcastro | first1 = sarah-marie

| last2 = Hull | first2 = Thomas C. | author2-link = Tom Hull (mathematician)

| doi = 10.1016/S0024-3795(01)00608-5

| journal = Linear Algebra and Its Applications

| mr = 1902132

| pages = 273–282

| title = Modelling the folding of paper into three dimensions using affine transformations

| volume = 348

| year = 2002| issue = 1–3

| doi-access = free

}}

References

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External links

  • [http://www.toroidalsnark.net/ Official home page]
  • {{google scholar id|DFgy2bsAAAAJ}}

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Category:American women mathematicians

Category:Haverford College alumni

Category:University of Michigan alumni

Category:Geometric topology

Category:American algebraists

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Category:21st-century American textile artists

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Category:1970 births

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