Maura B. Mast is an Irish-American mathematician, mathematics educator, and academic administrator, specializing in differential geometry and quantitative reasoning.
[1][2] With Ethan D. Bolker, she is the author of the textbook Common Sense Mathematics.
She grew up in South Bend and did her undergraduate studies at Notre Dame, with a double major in mathematics and anthropology.
[3] She completed her doctorate in mathematics in 1992 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
[1] Mast was chair of the Special Interest Group on Quantitative Literacy of the Mathematical Association of America for 2006–2007.