Stephen R. Wassell
Professor
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Sweet Briar College
Sweet Briar, VA 24595 

Phone: (434) 381-6214
Fax: (434) 381-6488
Email: wassell@sbc•edu
Office: Guion 201



A course based on my primary research interest:
Architecture and Mathematics course web page

My favorite journal:
Nexus Network Journal: Architecture and Mathematics Online
 
My favorite NNJ  issue (being the guest editor):
Winter 2002 Special Issue: The Golden Section
(Note, this issue takes a cautious and objective look at the
role of the golden section in art and architecture.)



Education:

BS Architecture 1984 University of Virginia*
MS Mathematics 1987 University of Virginia*
PhD Mathematics 1990 University of Virginia*
MCS Computer Science 1999 University of Virginia*
*Yes, I bleed orange and blue!

Selected Publications:

(2006) Mitrović, Branko and Stephen R. Wassell, Andrea Palladio: Villa Cornaro in Piombino Dese,
New York: Acanthus Press.

(2005) Wassell, Stephen R., A review of Branko Mitrović, Learning From Palladio,
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 64, n. 1 (March 2005), pp. 109–111.


(2002) Wassell, Stephen R., "Rediscovering a Family of Means,"
The Mathematical Intelligencer, 24, n. 2, pp. 58–65.


(2002) Wassell, Stephen R. and Kim Williams, trans., On Ratio and Proportion,
(Silvio Belli, Della proportione et proportionalità ), Fucecchio (Florence), Italy: Kim Williams Books.


(2001) Wassell, Stephen R., "Arithmetic, Geometric and Harmonic Sequences,"
Nexus Network Journal, 3, n. 4, pp. 151–155.


(2000) Wassell, Stephen R., "Art and Mathematics before the Quattrocento:
A Context for Understanding Renaissance Architecture," in Kim Williams, ed.,
Nexus III: Architecture and Mathematics, Ospedaletto (Pisa), Italy: Pacini Editore, pp 157–168.


(2000) Wassell, Stephen R., "Superexponentiation and Fixed Points of Exponential
and Logarithmic Functions," Mathematics Magazine, 73, n. 2, pp. 111–119.


(1998) Wassell, Stephen R., "The Mathematics of Palladio’s Villas," in Kim Williams, ed.,
Nexus II: Architecture and Mathematics, Fucecchio (Florence), Italy: Edizioni Dell’Erba, pp. 173–186.


(1995) Thomas, L. T. and S. R. Wassell, "Semiclassical approximation for Schrödinger
operators on a 2-sphere at high energy," Journal of Mathematical Physics, 36, pp. 5480–5505.


(1992) Thomas, L. T. and S. R. Wassell, "Semiclassical approximation for Schrödinger
operators at high energy," in E. Balslev, ed., Schrödinger Operators: The Quantum Mechanical
Many-Body Problem
(Lecture Notes in Physics 403), New York: Springer-Verlag, pp. 194–210.


Honors and Awards:

U.S. Patent No. 4,924,723: Solar powered lawnmower, 1990
U.S. Patent No. 4,935,965: Earmuffs, 1990
U.S. Patent No. 5,090,167: Solar shed, 1992

Who’s Who in America: 54th edition (2000), 55th (’01), 56th (’02), 57th (’03), 58th (’04), 59th (’05), 60th (’06), 61st (’07), 62nd (’08)
Who’s Who in American Education: 4th edition (’94–95), 5th (’96–97), 6th (’04–05), 7th (’06–07), 8th (’07–08)
Who’s Who in Science and Engineering: 1st edition (’92–93), 2nd (’94–95), 3rd (’96–97), 4th (’98–99), 7th (’03–04), 8th (’04–05), 9th (’06–07), 10th (’08–09)
Who’s Who in the South and Southwest: 23rd edition (’93–94), 24th (’95–96), 25th (’97-98)
Who’s Who in the World: 11th edition (’93–94), 12th (’95), 13th (’96), 14th (’97), 15th (’98), 16th (’99), 17th (’00), 18th (’01), 19th (’02), 20th (’03 ), 21st (’04 ), 22nd (’05 ), 23rd (’06), 24th (’07)