Lynne H. Walling
Lynne Heather Walling | |
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| Died | May 28, 2021 |
| Alma mater | Dartmouth College |
| Known for | Number theory |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Bristol |
| Thesis | Theta Series Attached to Lattices of Arbitrary Rank (1987) |
| Doctoral advisor | Thomas Richard Shemanske |
| Website | people |
Lynne Heather Walling (October 9, 1958 – May 28, 2021) was an American mathematician specializing in number theory,[1] who became a reader in pure mathematics at the University of Bristol.[2][3] She was known for her research in number theory. She died on 28 May 2021.[4]
Early life and education
[edit]Walling was born on October 9, 1958, and grew up in northern California. She began her undergraduate studies at the University of California, San Diego, and after a two-year gap continued at Sonoma State University, studying accounting at first but then finishing a bachelor's degree in mathematics.[1] She received her Ph.D. from Dartmouth College in 1987 under Thomas Richard Shemanske.[5]
Career and later life
[edit]She then taught at St. Olaf College, Minnesota. She lived in an old farmhouse, which had no indoor plumbing. She built a hand-operated pump, enabling her to install a bathtub in the kitchen, beside a wood-burning stove.[3]
She became a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1990. In 1995 she received tenure, and in 2000 became a full Professor. She came to Bristol as a reader in mathematics in 2007.[3] From 2011 to 2015 she was Head of Pure Mathematics, and from 2018 was Director of the Institute of Pure Mathematics.[3]
Awards and honors
[edit]In 2012, Walling became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[6]
Selected publications
[edit]- Hafner, James Lee; Walling, Lynne H. Explicit action of Hecke operators on Siegel modular forms. J. Number Theory 93 (2002), no. 1, 34–57.
- Walling, Lynne H. Hecke operators on theta series attached to lattices of arbitrary rank. Acta Arith. 54 (1990), no. 3, 213–240.
- Merrill, Kathy D.; Walling, Lynne H. Sums of squares over function fields. Duke Math. J. 71 (1993), no. 3, 665–684.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Jorgenson, Jay; Shemanske, Thomas; Smajlović+date=March 2023, Lejla. "Lynne Heather Walling (1958–2021)". Notices of the American Mathematical Society.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Lynne Walling's Home Page". University of Bristol. Retrieved Mar 11, 2015.
- ^ a b c d Rudnev, Misha (June 15, 2021). "Lynne Heather Walling, 1958 - 2021".
- ^ "London Mathematical Society Newsletter" (PDF).
- ^ Lynne H. Walling at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
