Sarah-marie belcastro (born 1970), stylized sarah-marie belcastro, 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 College. Although her doctoral research was in algebraic geometry, she has also worked extensively in topological graph theory.MathILy people MathILy.org She is known for and has written extensively about mathematical knitting, and has co-edited three books on fiber mathematics.Adventures in Mathematical Knitting by Sarah-Marie Belcastro, American Scientist, 2021 She exclusively uses the form "sarah-marie belcastro".
Biography Belcastro was born in San Diego, California, in 1970, and grew up mostly in Andover, Massachusetts, and in Dubuque, Iowa.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.Sarah-Marie Belcastro at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
Since 2012, she has also been an instructor at the Art of Problem Solving Online 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).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.Curriculum Vitae September 2021Faculty News Briefs University of Massachusetts, Amherst, June 2012
Selected publications Books Discrete Mathematics with Ducks (AK Peters, 2012; 2nd ed., CRC Press, 2019, ).Reviews of Discrete Mathematics with Ducks: Figuring Fibers, edited by belcastro and Carolyn Yackel, Providence, R.I.: American Mathematics Society, 2018.Reviews of Figuring Fibers: Crafting by Concepts: fiber arts and mathematics, edited by belcastro and Yackel. AK Peters, 2011.Reviews of Crafting by Concepts: 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:
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External links Official home page