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Professor with math prop

Professor with math prop

2018 Halmos Distinguished Visiting Professor

SCU Welcomes Professor Thomas F. Banchoff for Winter 2018.

SCU Welcomes Professor Thomas F. Banchoff for Winter 2018.

The first Halmos Professor was Thomas F. Banchoff of Brown University in 2018. Tom is a geometer and an emeritus professor at Brown University where he taught for 47 years. Tom was president of the Mathematical Association of America. He also received the Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics.

While at Santa Clara, Tom taught a Survey of Geometry course, gave a colloquium on Cylinder vs. Mobius Band: Seeing the Difference and did research with our undergraduate students.

 

 

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