Biography:Stephanie B. Alexander
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Short description: American mathematician
Stephanie Brewster Brewer Taylor Alexander (died November 20, 2023) was an American mathematician, a professor emerita of mathematics at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.[1] Her research concerned differential geometry and metric spaces.[2]
Education and career
Alexander 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.[3] After joining the UIUC faculty as a half-time instructor, she became a regular faculty member in 1972.[2] She retired in 2009[4] and died in 2023.[5]
Books
- With Vitali Kapovitch and Anton Petrunin, Alexander authored the book An Invitation to Alexandrov Geometry: CAT(0) Spaces (Springer, 2019).
Recognition
- At Illinois, Alexander won the Luckman Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award and the William Prokasy Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in 1993.[4]
- 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."[6]
References
- ↑ Emeritus faculty, UIUC Mathematics, retrieved 2014-06-16.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Distinguished Mathematical Research award recipients", Math Times (UIUC Mathematics Department): 3, Fall 2004, http://www.math.uiuc.edu/mathtimes/mathtimes_fa04.pdf.
- ↑ Stephanie Brewster Brewer Taylor Alexander at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Mathematics Calendar 2012, UIUC Mathematics Department, p. October, https://math.illinois.edu/system/files/inline-files/math-calendar2012.pdf
- ↑ "Stephanie Alexander Obituary (2023) - Urbana, IL - The News-Gazette". https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/news-gazette/name/stephanie-alexander-obituary?id=53738822.
- ↑ 2014 Class of the Fellows of the AMS, retrieved 2014-06-16.
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