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American mathematician
Thomas Banchoff at Berkeley in 1973
Thomas Francis Banchoff (born April 7, 1938) is an American
mathematician
specializing in
geometry . He is a professor at
Brown University , where he has taught since 1967. He is known for his research in
differential geometry in three and four dimensions, for his efforts to develop methods of
computer graphics in the early 1990s, and most recently for his pioneering work in methods of undergraduate education utilizing online resources.
Banchoff graduated from the
University of Notre Dame in 1960, receiving his B.A. in Mathematics, and received his Masters and Ph.D. from
UC Berkeley in 1962 and 1964, where he was a student of
Shiing-Shen Chern .
[1] Before going to Brown he taught at
Harvard University and the
University of Amsterdam . In 2012 he became a fellow of the
American Mathematical Society .
[2] In addition, he was a president of the
Mathematical Association of America .
[3]
Selected works
with Stephen Lovett: Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces (2nd edition), A. K. Peters 2010
with Terence Gaffney, Clint McCrory: Cusps of Gauss Mappings, Pitman 1982
with
John Wermer :
Linear Algebra through Geometry , Springer Verlag 1983
Beyond the third dimension: geometry, computer graphics, and higher dimensions, Scientific American Library, Freeman 1990
Triple points and surgery of immersed surfaces. Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 46 (1974), 407–413. (concerning the number of triple points of immersed surfaces in
R
3
{\displaystyle R^{3}}
.)
Critical points and curvature for embedded polyhedra. Journal of Differential Geometry 1 (1967), 245–256. (Theorem of Gauß-Bonnet for Polyhedra)
Teaching Experience
Benjamin Peirce Instructor,
Harvard , 1964 - 1966
Research Associate,
Universiteit van Amsterdam , 1966 - 1967;
Brown University :
Asst Professor, 1967
Associate Professor 1970
Professor 1973 - 2014
G. Leonard Baker Visiting Professor of Mathematics,
Yale , 1998
Visiting Professor,
University of Notre Dame , 2001
Visiting Professor,
UCLA , 2002
Visiting Professor,
University of Georgia , 2006
Visiting Professor,
Stanford University , 2010
Visiting Professor,
Technical University of Berlin , 2012
Visiting Professor,
Sewanee: the University of the South , 2015
Visiting Professor,
Carnegie Mellon University , 2015
Visiting Professor,
Baylor University , 2016
Paul Halmos Visiting Professor,
Santa Clara University , 2018
[4]
Further reading
References
External links
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