Sarah-Marie Belcastro

Sarah-Marie Belcastro (aka sarah-marie belcastro,[1] born 1970) is an American mathematician and book author. She is an instructor at the Art of Problem Solving Online School[2] and is the director of Bryn Mawr's residential summer program MathILy.[3] Although her doctoral research was in algebraic geometry, she has also worked extensively in topological graph theory.[4] She is known for and has written extensively about mathematical knitting, and has co-edited three books on fiber mathematics.[5] She herself exclusively uses the form "sarah-marie belcastro".[6][1]

Biography

Belcastro was born in San Diego, CA in 1970, and grew up mostly in Andover, MA, and in Dubuque, IA.[7] 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.[8]

Since 2012, she has also been an instructor at the Art of Problem Solving Online School.[2] Since 2013, she has been the director of Bryn Mawr College's residential summer program MathILy (serious Mathematics Infused with Levity).[3] 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, ISBN 978-1-315-16767-1).[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

References
  1. "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)
  2. AoPS Online Art of Problem Solving School
  3. MathILy Bryn Mawr College
  4. MathILy people MathILy.org
  5. Adventures in Mathematical Knitting by Sarah-Marie Belcastro, American Scientist, 2021
  6. "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
  7. dr. sarah-marie belcastro toroidalsnark.net
  8. Sarah-Marie Belcastro at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  9. Curriculum Vitae September 2021
  10. Faculty News Briefs University of Massachusetts, Amherst, June 2012
  11. Reviews of Discrete Mathematics with Ducks:
    • Ashbacher, Charles (August 2012). "Review". MAA Reviews.
    • Székely, László A. zbMATH. Zbl 1250.05001.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  12. Reviews of Figuring Fibers:
  13. Reviews of Crafting by Concepts:
  14. Reviews of Making Mathematics with Needlework:
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