Barbu Kestenband
Title: Professor
Department: Mathematics
Campus: Long Island
Area(s) of Expertise: Projective Geometry
Education Credentials: Ph.D.
Joined New York Tech: 1975
Barbu Kestenband's areas of expertise focuses on finite projective geometry. He received an M.A. in Mathematics from Stony Brook University in 1971 and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from CUNY in 1975.
Recent Projects/Research
- The correlations of finite Desarguesian planes of square order.
Publications
- A family of unitals in the Hughes plane, Canadian Journal of Mathematics, Vol. XLII, No.6, 1990, pp. 1067-1083.
- Correlations whose squares are perspectivities, Geometriae Dedicata 33: 89-315, 1990.
- A family of complete arcs in finite projective planes, Colloquium Mathematicum, Vol. LVII, 1989, pp. 59-67.
- The correlations of finite Desarguesian planes of square order defined by diagonal matrices, Linear Algebra and its applications 423 (2007), 366-385.
- Projective geometries that are disjoint unions of caps, Canadian Journal of Mathematics 32 (1980), pp. 1299-1305.
Courses Taught at New York Tech
- Differential Equations
- Linear Algebra