Susan Jane Colley: Publications

• (as Susan Jane Morris) “Mod Art: The Art of Mathematics,” Technology Review, March/April, 1979, 47–51.
  
  
• S. J. Colley, “Stationary points of plane forms,” Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 95 (1985), no. 3, 341–347.
  
  
• S. J. Colley, “Lines having specified contact with projective varieties,” Proceedings of the 1984 Vancouver Conference in Algebraic Geometry, J. Carrell, A. V. Geramita, P. Russell, eds., pp. 47–70, CMS Conference Proceedings, Vol. 6, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1986.
  
  
• S. J. Colley, “The tumbling box,” Amer. Math. Monthly 94 (1987), no. 1, 62–68.
  
  
• S. J. Colley, “Enumerating stationary multiple-points,” Adv. in Math. 66 (1987), no. 2, 149–170.
  
  
• S. J. Colley, “Multiple-point formulas and line complexes,” Algebraic Geometry (Sundance, 1986), A. Holme and R. Speiser, eds., pp. 9–22, Lecture Notes in Math. 1311, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-New York, 1988.
  
  
• S. J. Colley, “Coincidence formulas for line complexes,” Comm. in Algebra 16 (1988), no. 11, 2363–2385.
  
  
• S. J. Colley, “Schubert's coincidence formulas for line complexes and the contribution of embedded planar pencils,”Enumerative Geometry (Sitges, 1987), S. Xambo-Descamps, ed., pp. 60–76, Lecture Notes in Math. 1436, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-New York, 1990.
  
  
• S. J. Colley and G. Kennedy, “A higher-order contact formula for plane curves,” Comm. in Algebra, 19 (1991), no. 2, 479-508.
  
  
• S. J. Colley and G. Kennedy, “Triple and quadruple contact of plane curves,” Enumerative Algebraic Geometry: Proceedings of the 1989 Zeuthen Symposium, S. Kleiman and A. Thorup, eds., pp. 31–59, Contemp. Math. 123, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1991.
  
  
• S. J. Colley, “Differentiating between the presidential candidates,” MAA FOCUS, September, 1992, p. 8.
  
  
• S. J. Colley,“Calculus in the brewery,” The College Mathematics Journal 25 (1994), no. 3, 226–227.
  
  
• S. J. Colley and G. Kennedy, “The enumeration of simultaneous higher-order contacts between plane curves,”Compositio Mathematica 93 (1994), 171–209. arXiv:alg-geom/9212003.
  
  
• S. J. Colley, Vector Calculus, Prentice Hall, 1997 (copyright 1998).
  
  
• S. J. Colley, L. Ernstrom, G. Kennedy, “Contact formulas for rational plane curves via stable maps,” J. Algebraic Geometry, 10 (2001), no. 2, 365–396. arXiv:math/9909129 [math.AG]. 
  
  
• S. J. Colley and G. Kennedy, “Detecting flat normal cones using Segre classes,” Journal of Algebra 245 (2001), no. 1, 182–192. Available online at http://www.idealibrary.com; see doi:10.1006/jabr.2001.8946. arXiv:math/0010067 [math.AG].
  
  
• S. J. Colley, Vector Calculus, Prentice Hall, 2nd ed., 2001 (copyright 2002).
  
  
• S. J. Colley, Three mathematical Christmas carols: “Exponents,” “The Conic Section Carol,” and “Riemann the Hard-Nosed Mathman,”Math Horizons, November 2001, Volume IX, Issue 2, pp. 25 and 28.
  
  
• S. J. Colley,“Calculus, pi, and the machine age,”The College Mathematics Journal 34 (2003), no. 4, 264–269.
  
  
• S. J. Colley, D. Edidin, D. Grayson, R. Piene, eds., Special Issue in Honor of Steven L. Kleiman, Comm. in Algebra 31 (2003), no. 8, ix + 605 pp.
  
  
• S. J. Colley  Vector Calculus, Prentice Hall,  3rd ed., 2005 (copyright 2006).
  
  
• S. J. Colley and D. Steinberg, Instructor's Solutions Manual to Vector Calculus (online), 3rd ed., Prentice Hall, 2005 (copyright 2006).
  
  
• S. J. Colley and D. Steinberg, Student Solutions Manual to Vector Calculus, 3rd ed., Prentice Hall, 2005 (copyright 2006).
  
  
• S. J. Colley, Review of E. Kunz, Introduction to Plane Algebraic Curves, Amer. Math. Monthly 114 (2007), no. 6, 557–661.
  
  
• S. J. Colley S. Landau, G. Staffilani, K. Wehrheim, “MIT woMen in maTh: A Celebration,”AWM Newsletter 38 (July–August 2008), no. 4, 16–18.
  
  
• S. J. Colley and G. Kennedy, “Tangential quantum cohomology of arbitrary order,” Comm. in Algebra, 36 (2008), no. 8, 2979–2997. arXiv:math/0611902 [math.AG]. 
  
  
• S. J. Colley, Review of T. Michaelides, Pythagorean Crimes (translated by L. Cavanagh), Parmenides Publishing, Las Vegas, 2008. The College Mathematics Journal 40 (2009), no. 3, 222–223.
  

• S. J. Colley, Review of A. Sangalli, Pythagoras’Revenge, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2009 and Y. Ogawa, The Housekeeper and the Professor (translated by S. Snyder), Picador, New York, 2009. The College Mathematics Journal 41 (2010), no. 2, 170–172.
  

• S. J. Colley, Review of S. J. Ceci and W. M. Williams, The Mathematics of Sex:  How Biology and Society Conspire to Limit Talented Women and Girls, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2010.  Amer. Math. Monthly 118 (2011), no. 4, 379–382.
  
  
• S. J. Colley, “What is Mathematics and Why Won't It Go Away?” PRIMUS 21 (2011), no. 3, 211–224.
  
  
• S. J. Colley, Vector Calculus,  4th ed., Pearson, Boston, 2011 (copyright 2012).
  
  
• S. J. Colley and D. Steinberg, Instructor's Solutions Manual to Vector Calculus (online), 4th ed., Pearson, Boston, 2012.
  
  
• S. J. Colley and D. Steinberg, Student Solutions Manual to Vector Calculus, 4th ed., Pearson, Boston, 2012.
  

• S. J. Colley, Review of S. Takahashi and I. Inoue, The Manga Guide to Linear Algebra, No Startch Press, San Francisco, 2012 and H. Yuki, Math Girls (translated by T. Gonzalez), Bento Books, Austin, TX, 2011. The College Mathematics Journal 44 (2013), no. 3, 244–247.
  

• S. J. Colley, “Algebra, Analysis, and Eating Corn,” MAA FOCUS, October/November, 2013, p. 7.
  

• F. Block, S. J. Colley, G. Kennedy, “Computing Severi degrees with long-edge graphs,” Bull. Brazilian Math. Soc., New Series 45 (2014), no. 4, 625–647. arXiv:1303.5308 [math.AG]. 
  

• S. J. Colley, “What Is Mathematics and Why Won't It Go Away?  Philosophy of Mathematics in a First-Year Seminar,” Using the Philosophy of Mathematics in Teaching Mathematics, C. Behrens, B. Gold, R. Simons, eds., MAA Notes 86, MAA Press, Washington, DC 2017.

• A. Castro, S. J. Colley, G. Kennedy, C. Shanbrom, “A coarse stratification of the monster tower,” Michigan Math. J., 66 (2017), no. 4, 855–866.  arXiv:1606.07931 [math.AG].

• S. J. Colley and G. Kennedy, “Cartan prolongation of a family of curves acquiring a node,” SIGMA 14 (2018), 031, 16 pages (online publication). arXiv:1710.02863 [math.DG].
  
  
• S. J. Colley, S. Canez, Vector Calculus,  5th ed., Pearson, Boston, 2022.
  
  
• S. J. Colley, G. Kennedy, and C. Shanbrom,“The structural invariants of Goursat distributions”(preprint). arXiv:2308.09101 [math.DG].