Thomas Banchoff

Thomas Francis Banchoff (born April 7, 1938) is an American mathematician specializing in geometry.

He is known for his research in differential geometry in three and four dimensions, for his efforts to develop methods of computer graphics in the early 1990s, and most recently for his pioneering work in methods of undergraduate education utilizing online resources.

Banchoff graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1960, receiving his B.A.

in Mathematics, and received his Masters and Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 1962 and 1964, where he was a student of Shiing-Shen Chern.

In 1996 he received the Deborah and Franklin Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics.