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Marilyn Breen

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Citizenship
  
United States

Known for
  
Geometry, polygons

Fields
  
Mathematics

Alma mater
  
Clemson University

Name
  
Marilyn Breen


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Thesis
  
A Determination of the Combinatorial Type of a Polytope by Radon Partitions (1997)

Doctoral advisor
  
William Ray Hare, Jr.

Institution
  
University of Oklahoma

Institutions
  
University of Oklahoma

Doctoral students
  
Debra Strickland

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

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Life and work

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

Awards and honors

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

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

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

    Marilyn Breen Wikipedia
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