Marilyn Breen
Mathematician
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Marilyn Janet Breen (born 1944)[1] is a professor of mathematics at the University of Oklahoma.[2] Her research involves geometry, including visibility and orthogonal polygons.
Marilyn Breen | |
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| Born | 1944 |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Alma mater | Clemson University |
| Known for | Geometry, polygons |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Oklahoma |
| Thesis | A Determination of the Combinatorial Type of a Polytope by Radon Partitions (1997) |
| Doctoral advisor | William Ray Hare Jr. |
Life and work
Breen graduated in 1966 from Agnes Scott College,[2] and received her Ph.D. from Clemson University in 1970 under the supervision of William Ray Hare Jr.[3] She joined the Oklahoma faculty in 1971 and was promoted to full professor in 1982.[2]
Awards and honors
In her time at the University of Oklahoma, Breen won several awards for teaching and research, including an "outstanding teacher" award.[4]
In 2012, Breen became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[5]
Selected publications
- Breen, Marilyn (1992), "Staircase kernels in orthogonal polygons", Archiv der Mathematik, 59 (6): 588–594, doi:10.1007/BF01194852
- Breen, Marilyn (1994), "An improved Krasnoselʹskiĭ-type theorem for orthogonal polygons which are starshaped via staircase paths", Journal of Geometry, 51 (1–2): 31–35, doi:10.1007/BF01226854
- Breen, Marilyn; Kay, David C. (1976), "General decomposition theorems for m-convex sets in the plane", Israel Journal of Mathematics, 24 (3–4): 217–233, doi:10.1007/BF02834753