Thomas Banchoff
Thomas Francis Banchoff ( born April 7, 1938) is an American mathematician who is concerned with geometry and differential geometry.
Life
Banchoff studied at the University of Notre Dame with a bachelor 's degree in 1960 and at the University of California, Berkeley with a Master 's degree in 1962 and his doctorate in 1964 at S. S. Chern ( Tightly embedded two dimensional polyhedral manifolds ) After that, he was at Harvard University ( 1964 to 1966 when Benjamin Peirce Instructor ) and 1966/67, at the Free University of Amsterdam. In 1967 he was Assistant Professor, Associate Professor in 1970 and Professor in 1973 at Brown University. 1970/71 he was there Acting Dean of Student Affairs.
He has been a visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, at the University of Notre Dame (2001 ) at Yale University and the University of Georgia.
It deals with the geometry and topology of low-dimensional manifolds ( three and four dimensions ) and is involved in various mathematics education projects, including the Internet-based learning with computer graphics techniques in geometry and multidimensional analysis. As early as 1978 he was therefore Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Helsinki.
In 2012 he became a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. 1999 to 2000 he was president of the Mathematical Association of America, the National Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching, he received in 1996. 1978 to 1981 he was associate editor of Mathematics Magazine, 1982 to 1985 of the American Mathematical Montly, 1986-1995 by Geometriae Dedicata and since 1996 by Communications in Visual Mathematics. He was Woodrow Wilson Fellow and Carnegie Fellow.
Banchoff is an honorary Doctor of Fairfield University and the Rhode Iceland college. In 1978 he was awarded with Louis H. Kauffman Lester Randolph Ford Award.
He gave the book Flatland by Edwin Abbott Abbott out new, was advisor to the film Flatland (2007) and set forth to computer animation.
Writings
- With Stephen Lovett: Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces, AK Peters 2010
- 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. (Number of triple points always ized areas in. )
- Critical points and curvature for embedded polyhedra. J. Differential Geometry 1 (1967 ), 245-256. ( Gauss -Bonnet for polyhedra. )