Marilyn Breen

Marilyn Breen
Citizenship United States
Alma mater Clemson University
Known for Geometry, polygons
Awards
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.

Marilyn Janet Breen is a professor of mathematics at the University of Oklahoma.[1] Her research involves geometry, including visibility and orthogonal polygons.

Life and work

Breen graduated in 1966 from Agnes Scott College,[1] and received her Ph.D. from Clemson University in 1970 under the supervision of William Ray Hare Jr.[2] She joined the Oklahoma faculty in 1971 and was promoted to full professor in 1982.[1]

Awards and honors

In her time at Rutger, Breen won several awards for teaching and research, including an "outstanding teacher" award.[3]

In 2012, Breen became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[4]

Selected publications

  • Breen, Marilyn Staircase kernels in orthogonal polygons. Arch. Math. (Basel) 59 (1992), no. 6, 588–594.
  • Breen, Marilyn An improved Krasnoselʹskiĭ-type theorem for orthogonal polygons which are starshaped via staircase paths. J. Geom. 51 (1994), no. 1-2, 31–35.
  • Breen, Marilyn; Kay, David C. General decomposition theorems for m-convex sets in the plane. Israel J. Math. 24 (1976), no. 3-4, 217–233.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Univ. of Oklahoma faculty listing, retrieved 2014-12-21.
  2. ↑ Marilyn Breen at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ↑ "Retired Faculty of the OU Math Department". Retrieved Feb 1, 2015.
  4. ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
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