Biography:Dora Musielak
Dora Elia Musielak is an aerospace engineer, historian of mathematics, and book author. She is an expert on high-speed airbreathing jet engines,[1] and an adjunct professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington.[2]
Education and career
Musielak earned a bachelor's degree in aeronautical engineering from the Instituto Politécnico Nacional in Mexico in 1978,[2] the first woman to earn a degree in this field there.[2][3] She continued with a master's degree at the University of Tennessee in 1980, and a Ph.D. at the University of Alabama in Huntsville in 1994.[2]
Her employers have included Northrop Grumman, MSE Technology Applications, and ATK Allied Techsystems.[2] She chaired the High Speed Air Breathing Propulsion Technical Committee of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics from 2014 to 2016.[4]
Books
Musielak's 2004 self-published historical novel Sophie's Diary: A Mathematical Novel, based on the life of mathematician Sophie Germain, was republished in a second edition in 2012 by the Mathematical Association of America.[3][5] Musielak also wrote a biography of Germain, Prime Mystery: The Life and Mathematics of Sophie Germain (2015), also republished in an expanded second edition as Sophie Germain: Revolutionary Mathematician by Springer in 2020.[6]
Her other books include Kuxan Suum: Path to the Center of the Universe (2010) and Euler Celestial Analysis: Introduction to Spacecraft Orbit Mechanics (2018). These remain self-published, through AuthorHouse.
References
- ↑ "Aircraft's target: Mach 6 for 5 minutes", Houston Chronicle, August 14, 2012, https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/nation-world/article/Aircraft-s-target-Mach-6-for-5-minutes-3788430.php, "Dora Musielak, an adjunct professor of physics at the University of Texas at Arlington whose research focuses on high-speed propulsion"
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Dr. Dora Elia Musielak, University of Texas at Arlington, https://mentis.uta.edu/explore/profile/dora-musielak, retrieved 2018-11-18
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "A mathematical novel from UT Arlington professor", UTA News Center (University of Texas at Arlington), May 9, 2012, https://www.uta.edu/news/releases/2012/05/sophiesdiary-release.php
- ↑ Musielak, Dora (July 2014), "Message from the chair", HighSpeed Times: Newsletter of the AIAA High Speed Air Breathing Propulsion Technical Committee 5 (2): 1
- ↑ Reviews of Sophie's Diary:
- Holdener, Judy (September 2006), "Review", MAA Reviews, https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/sophies-diary-a-historical-fiction-0
- Intermont, Michele (July 2012), "Review", MAA Reviews, https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/sophies-diary-a-mathematical-novel
- Dunn, Si (August 2012), "Texas & Southwest books roundup", Dallas Morning News, https://www.dallasnews.com/arts/books/2012/08/03/texas-southwest-books-roundup-a-little-history-a-little-music-a-memoir-and-some-fiction
- Draper, Norman R. (December 2012), "none", International Statistical Review 80 (3): 481–482, doi:10.1111/j.1751-5823.2012.00196_13.x
- Hebert, Christing (October 2013), "none", The Mathematics Teacher 107 (3): 239, doi:10.5951/mathteacher.107.3.0238
- Rauff, James V. (Winter 2015), "Review", Mathematics and Computer Education 49 (1): 71, https://search.proquest.com/openview/626006bfaf2187af48e3550028ca5bd9/1
- Watkins, John J. (2012), "none", Mathematical Reviews, doi:10.5948/UPO9781614445104, ISBN 9781614445104
- ↑ Reviews of Prime Mystery and Sophie Germain: Revolutionary Mathematician:
- Pengelley, David (April 2015), "Review of Prime Mystery", MAA Reviews (Mathematical Association of America), https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/prime-mystery-the-life-and-mathematics-of-sophie-germain
- Pengelley, David (November 2020), "Review of Sophie Germain: Revolutionary Mathematician", MAA Reviews (Mathematical Association of America), https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/sophie-germain-revolutionary-mathematician
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