Stephanie B. Alexander
Stephanie Brewster Brewer Taylor Alexander (September 1, 1941 – November 20, 2023)[1] was an American mathematician, a professor emerita of mathematics at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.[2] Her research concerned differential geometry and metric spaces.[3]
Education and career
[edit]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.[4] After joining the UIUC faculty as a half-time instructor, she became a regular faculty member in 1972.[3] She retired in 2009[5] and died in 2023.[6]
Books
[edit]- With Vitali Kapovitch and Anton Petrunin, Alexander authored the book An Invitation to Alexandrov Geometry: CAT(0) Spaces (Springer, 2019).
Recognition
[edit]- At Illinois, Alexander won the Luckman Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award and the William Prokasy Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in 1993.[5]
- 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."[7]
References
[edit]- ^ Crematory, Renner-Wikoff Chapel &. "Obituary for Stephanie Alexander | Renner-Wikoff Chapel & Crematory". Obituary for Stephanie Alexander | Renner-Wikoff Chapel & Crematory. Retrieved 2024-02-17.
- ^ Emeritus faculty, UIUC Mathematics, retrieved 2014-06-16.
- ^ a b "Distinguished Mathematical Research award recipients" (PDF), Math Times, UIUC Mathematics Department: 3, Fall 2004, archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-04-19.
- ^ Stephanie Brewster Brewer Taylor Alexander at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ a b Mathematics Calendar 2012 (PDF), UIUC Mathematics Department, p. October
- ^ "Stephanie Alexander Obituary (2023) - Urbana, IL - The News-Gazette". Legacy.com. Retrieved 2023-12-09.
- ^ 2014 Class of the Fellows of the AMS, retrieved 2014-06-16.
External links
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Categories:
- 1941 births
- 2023 deaths
- 20th-century American mathematicians
- 21st-century American mathematicians
- University of Illinois College of Liberal Arts and Sciences alumni
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
- Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
- 20th-century American women mathematicians
- 21st-century American women mathematicians
- Differential geometers