Biography:Ellen Gethner
Ellen Gethner | |
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| Born | United States |
| Occupation | Mathematician and Computer Scientist |
| Known for | Research in graph theory, winning the Mathematical Association of America's Chauvenet Prize in 2002 |
Ellen Gethner is a US mathematician and computer scientist specializing in graph theory who won the Mathematical Association of America's Chauvenet Prize[1] in 2002 with co-authors Stan Wagon and Brian Wick for their paper A stroll through the Gaussian Primes.[2]
Career
Gethner has two doctorates. She completed her first, a PhD in mathematics from Ohio State University, in 1992; her dissertation, Rational Period Functions For The Modular Group And Related Discrete Groups, was supervised by L. Alayne Parson. She completed a second PhD in computer science from the University of British Columbia in 2002, with a dissertation Computational Aspects of Escher Tilings supervised by Nick Pippenger and David G. Kirkpatrick.[3] Gethner is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at University of Colorado Denver.[4]
Research
Gethner became interested in connections between geometry and art after a high school lesson using a kaleidoscope to turn a drawing into an Escher-like tessellation of the plane. This later inspired some of her research on wallpaper patterns and on converting music into visual patterns.[5]
References
- ↑ "Chauvenet Prizes | Mathematical Association of America". https://www.maa.org/programs-and-communities/member-communities/maa-awards/writing-awards/chauvenet-prizes.
- ↑ Gethner, Ellen; Wagon, Stan; Wick, Brian (1998). "A Stroll Through the Gaussian Primes". American Mathematical Monthly 105 (4): 327–337. doi:10.2307/2589708. ISSN 0002-9890.
- ↑ Ellen Gethner at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ "UC Denver faculty and staff directory". https://engineering.ucdenver.edu/about/faculty-staff-directory.
- ↑ "Making art from math". Impact (University of Colorado Denver College of Engineering and Applied Science) 3 (1): 6–8. 2014. https://issuu.com/ucdengineering/docs/impactmagazine2014.
External links
- Ellen Gethner publications indexed by Google Scholar
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