Biography:Stephanie B. Alexander
Stephanie Brewster Brewer Taylor Alexander (September 1, 1941 – November 20, 2023)[1] was an American mathematician, a professor of mathematics at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.[2] Her research concerned differential geometry and metric spaces.[3]
Biography
Alexander was born in Los Angeles and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, and London, Ontario. She was a graduate of Mount Holyoke College.[4]
She earned her Ph.D. from UIUC in 1967, under the supervision of Richard L. Bishop, with a thesis entitled Reducibility of Euclidean Immersions of Low Codimensions.[5] After joining the UIUC faculty as a half-time instructor, she became a regular faculty member in 1972.[3] She retired in 2009[6] and died in 2023.[4]
Mathematical Work
Alexander's most significant achievements were in relation to the study of metric spaces with curvature bounds. Of particular importance was her work with Bishop to establish a concept of curvature bounds in the style of Alexandrov geometry for semi-Riemannian manifolds and Lorentzian manifolds, an early step towards the development of synthetic geometry in a Lorentzian setting.[7]
Books
- With Vitali Kapovitch and Anton Petrunin, Alexander authored the book An Invitation to Alexandrov Geometry: CAT(0) Spaces (Springer, 2019).
- S. Alexander, V. Kapovitch, A. Petrunin. Alexandrov geometry—foundations. — AMS, 2024. — (Grad. Stud. Math. 236).
Recognition
- At Illinois, Alexander won the Luckman Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award and the William Prokasy Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in 1993.[6]
- In 2014 she was elected as a fellow of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to geometry, for high-quality exposition, and for exceptional teaching of mathematics."[8]
References
- ↑ Crematory, Renner-Wikoff Chapel &. "Obituary for Stephanie Alexander | Renner-Wikoff Chapel & Crematory" (in en). https://www.renner-wikoffchapel.com/obituary/Stephanie-Alexander.
- ↑ Emeritus faculty, UIUC Mathematics, retrieved 2014-06-16.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Distinguished Mathematical Research award recipients", Math Times (UIUC Mathematics Department): 3, Fall 2004, http://www.math.uiuc.edu/mathtimes/mathtimes_fa04.pdf.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Stephanie Alexander Obituary (2023) - Urbana, IL - The News-Gazette". https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/news-gazette/name/stephanie-alexander-obituary?id=53738822.
- ↑ Stephanie Brewster Brewer Taylor Alexander at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Mathematics Calendar 2012, UIUC Mathematics Department, p. October, https://math.illinois.edu/system/files/inline-files/math-calendar2012.pdf
- ↑ Alexander, Stephanie B.; Bishop, Richard L. (2008). "Lorentz and semi-Riemannian spaces with Alexandrov curvature bounds". arXiv:0804.2493 [math.DG].
- ↑ 2014 Class of the Fellows of the AMS, retrieved 2014-06-16.
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