Bodil Branner

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Bodil Branner (born 5 February 1943, in Aarhus) is a retired Danish mathematician, one of the founders of European Women in Mathematics and a former chair of the Danish Mathematical Society. Her research concerned holomorphic dynamics and the history of mathematics. [1]

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Education and career

Branner studied mathematics and physics at Aarhus University, where mathematician Svend Bundgaard was one of her mentors, and in 1967 earned a master's degree (the highest degree then available) under the supervision of Leif Kristensen. She had intended to travel to the U.S. for a doctorate, but her husband, a chemist, took an industry job in Copenhagen. Branner could not get a job as a high school teacher because she did not have a teaching qualification, but Bundgaard found her a position as a faculty assistant for Frederik Fabricius-Bjerre at the Technical University of Denmark. Despite this not beginning as an actual faculty position, she eventually earned tenure there in the 1970s. [1] She was the first woman to chair the Danish Mathematical Society, from 1998 to 2002. [2] She retired in 2008. [1]

Recognition

A symposium in honor of Branner's 60th birthday was held in Holbæk in 2003, and published as a festschrift in 2006. [3] In 2012, she became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society. [4]

Selected publications

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Hjorth, Poul G. (June 2012), "Interview with Bodil Branner", Newsletter of the European Mathematical Society , 84, archived from the original on 2015-02-17, retrieved 2015-02-17
  2. Munkholm, Hans Jørgen (February 5, 2002), Bodil Branner og Dansk Matematisk Forening (in Danish), retrieved 2015-02-16.
  3. Hjorth, Poul G.; Petersen, Carsten Lunde (2006), Dynamics on the Riemann sphere: A Bodil Branner Festschrift, Including papers from the Symposium on Holomorphic Dynamics held in Holbæk, June 2003, Zürich: European Mathematical Society (EMS), doi:10.4171/011, ISBN   3-03719-011-6, MR   2348951 .
  4. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2015-02-16.