Biography:Martha Siegel
Martha Jochnowitz Siegel is an American applied mathematician, probability theorist and mathematics educator who served as the editor of Mathematics Magazine from 1991 to 1996.[1][2] In 2017 she won the Yueh-Gin Gung and Dr. Charles Y. Hu Award for Distinguished Service of the Mathematical Association of America for "her remarkable leadership in guiding the national conversation on undergraduate mathematics curriculum".[1][3] She was a faculty member in the mathematics department of Towson University from 1971 until 2015, when she became a professor emerita.[1]
Education and career
Siegel grew up in Brooklyn, the daughter of civil engineer Nat Jochnowitz.[3] She became interested in mathematics through her father's interest in mathematical puzzles,[2] and through the calculation of baseball statistics for the Brooklyn Dodgers.[3] She did her undergraduate studies in mathematics at Russell Sage College, a small women's college in Troy, New York, while also taking classes at the nearby men-only Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,[4] as at that time Russell Sage had no mathematics department.[2] At Russell Sage, she was a Kellas honor student, and president of the science club.[5] She completed her Ph.D. in 1969 at the University of Rochester; her dissertation, On Birth and Death Processes, was supervised by Johannes Kemperman.[4][6] During graduate school and until her 1971 move to Towson, she was on the faculty at Goucher College.[4]
Contributions
At Towson, in 1981, Siegel founded an innovative and still-ongoing undergraduate applied mathematics program involving projects connected to local business and government. She is a co-author of the discrete mathematics and precalculus textbooks Finite Mathematics and Its Applications and Functioning in the Real World. She also served as chair of a committee of the Mathematical Association of America charged with producing the 2015 edition of their MAA Curriculum Guide to Undergraduate Majors in the Mathematical Sciences.[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Bradshaw, Megan, "FCSM's Siegel honored for service to mathematics", 2016 News (Towson University), https://www.towson.edu/news/2016/marthasiegel.html, retrieved 2018-02-07
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Ross, Kenneth A. (August 10, 2006), Martha Siegel (interview), Mathematical Association of America, https://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/pdf/centennial/MarthaSiegelInterview.pdf
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Crannell, Annalisa; Ensley, Doug (March 2017), "Yueh-Gin Gung and Dr. Charles Y. Hu Award for 2017 to Martha Siegel for Distinguished Service to Mathematics", American Mathematical Monthly 124 (3): 195–197, doi:10.4169/amer.math.monthly.124.3.195
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Martha J. Siegel, Ph.D., Professor Emerita, Department of Mathematics, Towson University, https://tigerweb.towson.edu/siegel/, retrieved 2018-02-07
- ↑ "Arrives home", The Dobbs Ferry Register: 7, June 4, 1959, http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2017/Dobbs%20Ferry%20NY%20%20Register/Dobbs%20Ferry%20NY%20%20Register%201959-1970/Dobbs%20Ferry%20NY%20%20Register%201959-1970%20-%200162.pdf
- ↑ Martha Siegel at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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