Marilyn Breen

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Marilyn Breen
Born1944 (1944)
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma mater
polygons
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Oklahoma
Thesis A Determination of the Combinatorial Type of a Polytope by Radon Partitions  (1997)
Doctoral advisorWilliam Ray Hare Jr.

Marilyn Janet Breen (born 1944)

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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",
    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",
    doi:10.1007/BF02834753

References

  1. ^ Birth year from Library of Congress catalog entry, retrieved 2018-12-01.
  2. ^ a b c Univ. of Oklahoma faculty listing, retrieved 2014-12-21.
  3. ^ Marilyn Breen at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^ "Retired Faculty of the OU Math Department". Retrieved Feb 1, 2015.
  5. ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
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