University of Connecticut
Department of Mathematics

Sarah Glaz

Sarah Glaz

   Professor Emeritus  
 
Mailing address:
Department of Mathematics 
University of Connecticut
341 Mansfield Road
Storrs, CT 06269-1009 


Email address:
sarah [dot] glaz [at] uconn [dot] edu

 

Ph.D. 1977        Rutgers University
B.A. 1972         Tel Aviv University
Place of Birth    Bucharest, Romania


Teaching
  
 
ball  Undergraduate Resources: Math Links for Information and Fun
                                                                                                                                           
green ball   Selected Course Webpages:           Math 2720W: History of Mathematics - Fall 2018
                                                             Math 1011Q: Introductory College Algebra and Mathematical Modeling - Fall 2016 (faculty coordinator page)
                                                            
Math 2210: Applied Linear Algebra - Fall 2016      
                                                             Math 5020: Introduction to Commutative Algebra - Fall 2014                  
                                                             Math 321: Introduction to Homological Algebra - Spring 2008
                                                             Math 2110: Multivariable Calculus - Fall 2010
                                                             Math 108QC: Mathematical Modeling in the Environment - Spring 2007                                            
                                                          
ball   2007  University Teaching Fellow

ball   2004  UConn AAUP Excellence in Teaching Innovation Award

ball   Math Poems by Students (Arcadia University, November 2013)


Research and Outreach

ball  Research Interests
           Commutative Algebra, Homological Algebra: Non-Noetherian Ring Theory (Coherent and Related Rings); Noetherian Ring Theory (Cohen-Macauley and Related Rings)
           Mathematics Education: Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Training; Poetry, Art and History in the Math Classroom

ball  Google Scholar Citation Profile

green ball  Videos of Conference Talks and Poetry Readings

green ball  Selected Mentions in the Media

ball   BRIDGES CONFERENCES
          Scientific Committee Member and Poetry Reading Chair
          Mathematical Poetry at Bridges

green ball  Journal Editorships
         Editorial Board Member (2006-2023): International Electronic Journal of Algebra (IEJA)
         Associate Editor (2011-present): Journal of Mathematics and the Arts (JMA).

ball  Curriculum Vitae and Publications

ball  My former Ph.D. Students
        Su Liang
        Ryan Schwarz


Books

Bridges 2023 Poetry Anthology 
Bridges 2023 Poetry Anthology
  Editor: Sarah Glaz
  Tessellations Publishing, 2023
  More Information and Table of Contents

Algebraic,NumberTheoretic,andTopologicalAspectsofRingTheory  
Algebraic, Number Theoretic and Topological Aspects of Ring Theory
   Editors: Jean-Luc Chabert, Marco Fontana, Sophie Frisch, Sarah Glaz, and Keith Johnson
   Springer, 2023


PoetryInTheGlade_Bridges2021FibCollection  
Poetry in the Glade: Bridges 2021 Fib Collection
   Curator: Sarah Glaz
   Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Poetry Folder, January 2022


  Bridges 2020 Poetry Anthology 
Bridges 2020 Poetry Anthology
    Editor: Sarah Glaz
    Tessellations Publishing, 2020
    More information and table of contents

Bridges 2018 Poetry Anthology cover     Bridges 2018 Poetry Anthology
     Editor: Sarah Glaz
     Tessellations Publishing, 2018
     More information and table of contents
               
Ode to
          Numbers   Ode to Numbers
  
Poems by Sarah Glaz
  
Antrim House, 2017
  
More information and table of contents
               
2018 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist
                  2018 Book Excellence Awards Finalist

Rings, Polynomials and Modules  
Rings, Polynomials, and Modules
   Editors: Marco Fontana, Sophie Frisch, Sarah Glaz, Francesca Tartarone and Paolo Zanardo
   Springer, 2017


Bridges 2016 Poetry Anthology  
Bridges 2016 Poetry Anthology
    Editor: Sarah Glaz
    Tessellations Publishing, 2016
    More information and table of contents

JMASpecialIssuePoetryAndMathematics   
Journal of Mathematics and the Arts
   Special Issue: Poetry and Mathematics
   Guest Editor: Sarah Glaz
   Taylor & Francis, 2014

CommutativeRingsIntegerValuedPolynomialsAndPolynomialFunctions  
Commutative Algebra: Recent Advances
   in Commutative Rings, Integer-Valued Polynomials and Polynomial Functions

   Editors: Marco Fontana, Sophie Frisch and Sarah Glaz
   Springer, 2014
                2017 Book Performance Report:13,698 chapter-downloads!

Bridges2013PoetryAnthology    Bridges 2013 Poetry Anthology
    Editor: Sarah Glaz
    Tessellations Publishing, 2013
    More information and sample poems 

StrangeAttractors     Strange Attractors: 
     Poems of Love and Mathematics
     Editors: Sarah Glaz and JoAnne Growney
     CRC Press / AK Peters, 2008
                  More information and sample poems

MultiplicativeIdealTheoryInCommutativeAlgebra     Multiplicative Ideal Theory in Commutative Algebra:
     a tribute to the work of Robert Gilmer                                
     Editors:  James Brewer, Sarah Glaz, William Heinzer and Bruce Olberding
     Springer, 2006

NonNoetherianCommutativeRingTheory      Non-Noetherian Commutative Ring Theory
     Editors:  Scott Chapman and Sarah Glaz
     MAIA 520, Springer / Kluwer, 2000


CommutativeCoherentRings    Commutative Coherent Rings
    Sarah  Glaz
    Lecture Notes in Mathematics 137, Springer-Verlag, 1989
    Reprinted by Springer, 2007.
                 Available online at:  Springerlink.com
                 Review:  Math Reviews 90f:13001       


Collaborative Art Projects
 
green ball 
Ptolemy's Almagest in Poetry and Collage
       
A poem-collage project (poem by Sarah Glaz with collage by Mark Sanders)
         To appear in The Mathematical Intelligencer
green ball 
Eratosthenes' Lament
       
A poem-collage project (poem by Sarah Glaz with collage by Mark Sanders)
         The poem-collage pair appears in the Bridges 2023 online gallery:
         https://gallery.bridgesmathart.org/exhibitions/2023-bridges-conference/sarah-glaz-mark-sanders

green ball  Between Heaven and Earth!
         A poem-collage pair about
Hypatia of Alexandria (poem by Sarah Glaz with collage by Mark Sanders)
       
Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, Volume 13 Issue 1 (January 2023) pages 316-326
green Ball 
The Death of Euclid
        A poem-collage project (poem by Sarah Glaz with collage by Mark Sanders)
        The poem-collage pair appears in the Bridges 2022 online gallery:
       
https://gallery.bridgesmathart.org/exhibitions/2022-bridges-conference/sarahglaz
green ball 
The Music Is All That Counts!
         A poem-collage pair created during the pandemic (poem by Sarah Glaz with collage by Mark Sanders) 
        
Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, Volume 11 Issue 2 (July 2021), pages 522-529
ball  Square Root of 2
         A poem-collage project (poem by Sarah Glaz with collage by Mark Sanders) 
         The poem-collage pair appears in the Bridges 2021 online gallery:
        
https://gallery.bridgesmathart.org/exhibitions/2021-bridges-conference/sarahglaz
 green ball 
Among Practitioners of Cossike Arte
         A poem-collage pair from the poem-collage project "Imagined Invited."
         The poem-collage pair appears in the Bridges 2020 online gallery:
         https://gallery.bridgesmathart.org/exhibitions/2020-bridges-conference/sarahglaz
         The poem-collage collection, Imagined Invited, edited by David Greenslade with artwork by Mark Sanders, was published as a book by Hafan Books in November 2020.          


Selected Articles (after 2000)

green ball  Sarah Glaz and Mark Sanders, Ptolemy's Almagest in Poetry and Collage, to appear in The Mathematical Intelligencer
green ball  Sarah Glaz and Mark Sanders, Between Heaven and Earth! A Poem-Collage Pair about Hypatia of Alexandria, Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, Volume 13 (1), 316-326, 2023
green ball  Sarah Glaz, What is a mathematical ode?, to appear in AWM Book Series: "Women in Math-Art: Research, Creativity, and Teaching Conference Proceedings," Springer
green ball  Sarah Glaz, Bob Grumman's mathematical universe: somewhere, minutely, a widening, to appear in Synapse International
greeb ball  Sarah Glaz, Equations in Poetry, Proceedings of Bridges Aalto, 79-86, 2022
green ball  Sarah Glaz and Mark Sanders, The Music Is All That Counts! A Poem-Collage Pair Created During the Pandemic, Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, Volume 11 (2), 522-529, 2021
ball  Sarah Glaz, Mathematics in the Poetry of Sefer Yetzirah, Proceedings of Bridges 2021, 39-46, 2021
green ball  Sarah Glaz, Enheduanna: Princess, Priestess, Poet and Mathematician, The Mathematical Intelligencer 42 (2), 31-46, 2020 (DOI:10.1007/s00283-019-09914-7)
    Springer Link: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00283-019-09914-7 
ball  Emily Grosholz and Sarah Glaz, How to Use Prime Numbers and Periodicity to Write a Poem, Proceedings of Bridges Linz, 643-646,  2019
green ball  Sarah Glaz, Artist Interview: JoAnne Growney, Journal of Mathematics and the Arts 13, 243-260, 2019 (DOI: 10.1080/17513472.2018.1532869)
green ball  Sarah Glaz, Ode aos Numeros Primos, Revista Brasileira, Fase VIII, Ano V, No. 88, 19-31, 2016
green ball  Sarah Glaz, Poems Structured by Integer Sequences, Journal of Mathematics and the Arts 10, 44-52, 2016
green ball  Sarah Glaz, Guest Editor's Introduction, Journal of Mathematics and the Arts 8, 1-4, 2014
ball  Paul-Jean Cahen, Marco Fontana, Sophie Frisch and Sarah Glaz, Open Problems in Commutative Ring Theory, Commutative Algebra: Recent Advances in Commutative Rings,
    Integer-Valued Polynomials and Polynomial Functions, Springer, 353-375, 2014
green ball  Sarah Glaz, Ode to Prime Numbers, American Scientist 101, 246-250, 2013
    Ode to Prime Numbers (the online version at the American Scientist website)
ball  Ryan Schwarz and Sarah Glaz, Commutative Group Rings with von Neumann Regular Total Rings of Quotients,  Journal of Algebra 388, 287-293, 2013
ball  Sarah Glaz, Mathematical Ideas in Ancient Indian Poetry, Proceedings of Bridges Enschede, 27-34, 2013
ball  Su Liang, Sarah Glaz, Thomas DeFranco, Charles Vinsonhaler, Robin Grenier and Fabiana Cardetti,
     An Examination of the Preparation and Practice of Grades 7-12 Mathematics Teachers from the Shandong Province in China
, Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education 16, 149-160, 2013 
green ball  Su Liang, Sarah Glaz and Thomas DeFranco, Investigating Characteristics of Award-Winning Grades 7-12 Mathematics Teachers from the Shandong Province in China, Current Issues in Education 15, 2012 (online)
greenball  Sarah Glaz, Mathematical Pattern Poetry, Proceedings of Bridges Towson, 65-72, 2012
ball  Sarah Glaz and Ryan Schwarz, Finiteness and Homological Conditions in Commutative Group Rings, Progress in Commutative Algebra 2, De Gruyter, 129-143, 2012
ball  Sarah Glaz, Poetry Inspired by Mathematics: a Brief Journey through History, Journal of Mathematics and the Arts 5, 171-183, 2011
ball  Sarah Glaz, The Poetry of Prime Numbers, Proceedings of Bridges Coimbra, 17-24, 2011
ball  Sarah Glaz and Ryan Schwarz, Prufer Conditions in Commutative Rings, The Arabian Journal of Science and Engineering 36, 967-983, 2011
ball  Sarah Glaz, The Enigmatic Number e: A History in Verse and its Uses in the Mathematics Classroom, MAA Loci: Convergence, April 10,  2010
ball  Sarah Glaz, Poetry Inspired by Mathematics, Proceedings of Bridges Pecs, 35 - 43, 2010
ball  Sarah Glaz and Su Liang, Modeling with Poetry in an Introductory College Algebra Course and Beyond, Journal of Mathematics and the Arts 3, 123-133, 2009
ball  Silvana Bazzoni and Sarah Glaz, The Gaussian Properties of Total Rings of Quotients, Journal of Algebra 310, 180-193, 2007
ball  Silvana Bazzoni and Sarah Glaz, Prufer Rings,  Multiplicative Ideal Theory in Commutative Algebra, Springer, 55-72, 2006
ball  Sarah Glaz, The Weak Dimensions of Gaussian Rings, Proceedings of the American Math. Society 133, 2507-2513, 2005
ball  Sarah Glaz, Prufer Conditions in Rings With Zero-Divisors,  CRC Press Lecture Notes in Pure and Applied Math. 241, 272-282, 2005
ball  Sarah Glaz, Controlling the Zero-Divisors of a Commutative Ring, Marcel Dekker Lecture Notes in Pure and Applied Math. 231, 191-212, 2002
ball  Sarah Glaz, Homological Characterizations of Rings: The Commutative Case, The Concise Handbook of Algebra, Kluwer, 505-508, 2002
ball  Sarah Glaz, Finite Conductor Properties of R(X) and R<X>, Marcel Dekker Lecture Notes in Pure and Applied Math. 220, 231-250, 2001
ball  Alberto Corso and Sarah Glaz, Gaussian Ideals and Dedekind-Mertens Lemma, Marcel Dekker Lecture Notes in Pure and Applied Math. 217, 131-144, 2001
ball  Sarah Glaz, Finite Conductor Rings, Proceedings of the American Math. Society 129, 2833-2843, 2001


Selected Poems (after 2000):

green   I witnessed the creation,  in: Mathematics in the Poetry of Sefer Yetzirah, Proceedings of Bridges 2021, 39-46, 2021
ball   Among Practitioners of Cossike Arte, Sarah Glaz (poem), Mark Sanders (collage), David Greenslade (project), Bridges 2020 Online Art Gallery, 2020
                                                                   Also appeared in  Bridges 2020 Art Exhibit Catalog, page 28, 2020
ball   Since time is a dense substance impossible to alter
, The Hudson Review LXXII (4), p 564, Winter 2020
ball   Archimedes, The Hudson Review LXXII (4), p 563, Winter 2020
green ball   Poetry Folder: A selection of poems from Ode to Numbers, Journal of Humanistic Mathematics 9(1), 350-359, 2019
                             ("Numbers and letters," "The first negative," "Square-root of 2," "The death of  Euclid," "Calculus,"
                              "What can we do if we crave certainty in mathematics?" and "Hardy")
green ball   Two Bridges (In memory of Reza Sarhangi),  Journal of Mathematics and the Arts 12, 195, 2018
green ball   Square-root of 2, The Sundress Blog, April 8, 2018
                                  Translation into Spanish: Raiz cuadrada de 2 (translated by Elena Soto)
green ball   Like a mathematical proof, Intersections -- Poetry with Mathematics, January 4, 2019
                                                  Also appeared in: The Sundress Blog, April 8, 2018
                                                 Translation into Spanish: Como una demostracion matematica (translated by Elena Soto)
ball   Forward to the beginning, Talking Writing, May 9, 2016
green ball   The integers are not a happy medium, Talking Writing, May 9, 2016
ball   Pythagoras plays his lyre, Journal of Humanistic Mathematics 6(1), 291-291, 2016
                                                Translation into Galician: Pitagoras toca a lira  (translated by Anxeles Francis and Minia Bongiorno)
                                                Translation into Spanish:  Pitagoras toca la lira (translated by Elena Soto)
green ball   Departures in May, Intersections -- Poetry with Mathematics, January 30, 2015
                                      First appeared in Ibis Review 1, p 41, 1995   
green ball   Mathematical modeling, London Grip, New Poetry: Winter 2013
ball   A pantoum for the power of theorems, Intersections -- Poetry with Mathematics, March 18, 2013
ball   I am a number (II),  Talking Writing, February 17, 2012
ball   I am a number,  Journal of Humanistic Mathematics 1(2), 113-114, 2011
                                An unusual collaboration: Poem jewelry by Sandi Nenga
ball  13 January 2009,   Recursive Angel, May/June Issue, 2011
                                   Also appeared in 2020 AMS Page a Day Calendar, 2020
ball  Ghazal: Resonant Air,  The Ghazal Page # 36, December 2010
ball  The enigmatic number e,  MAA Loci: Convergence, 2010
ball  Calculus, Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal 26, 30-31, 2002


coolbook Last Modified: Spring 2023, Sarah Glaz