N. Sam Brannen

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Education

B.A., Asian Studies, UC Berkeley, 1983; B.A., Mathematics, SSU, 2013 (attended 1987-1989); M.A., Mathematics, UC Davis 1992; Ph.D., Mathematics, UC Davis, 1994; Post-Doc, Sophia University (Tokyo, Japan), 1995-1997

Academic Interests

Geometry, Calculus

Selected Publications & Presentations

“Three dimensional projection bodies,” Advances in Geometry, de Gruyter, Berlin, January 2005, pages 1-13. https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/advg/5/1/article-p1.xml

“Logarithmic differentiation: Two wrongs make a right,” with Ben Ford, College Mathematics Journal, Mathematical Association of America, Nov. 2004, pp. 388-390. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4146850?seq=1

“The sun, the moon, and convexity,” College Mathematics Journal, Mathematical Association of America, September 2001, pages 268-272. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07468342.2001.11921888?journalCode=ucmj20

“The Wills conjecture,” Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, American Mathematical Society, October 1997, pages 3977-3987. https://www.ams.org/journals/tran/1997-349-10/S0002-9947-97-01716-9/

“Volumes of projection bodies,” Mathematika: A Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Dept. of Mathematics, University College London, Dec. 1996, pp. 255-264. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/mathematika/article/abs/volumes-of-projection-bodies/0669377F656521BFBF76A22D5C62C3C1

Brannen, N. Samuel; Chan, Jean Bee and Dowdall, Nicholas E. Geometry with Projects and Explorations, Second Edition. New York: Pearson, 2012. https://www.textbooks.com/Geometry-With-Project-and-Explorations-Custom-2nd-Edition/9781256831808/Jean-Bee-Chan-and-N-Samuel-Brannen.php