Jessica Sklar

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Jessica Katherine Sklar (born 1973) [1] is a mathematician interested in abstract algebra, recreational mathematics, mathematics and art, and mathematics and popular culture. She is a professor of mathematics at Pacific Lutheran University, and former head of the mathematics department at Pacific Lutheran. [2]

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Education and career

As a high school student, Sklar studied poetry at the Interlochen Arts Academy. She did her undergraduate studies at Swarthmore College, where her mother Elizabeth S. had earned a degree in English (later becoming an English professor at Wayne State University) and her father Lawrence Sklar had taught philosophy. Jessica completed a double major in English and mathematics in 1995. [2] [3]

Next, Sklar moved to the University of Oregon for graduate study in mathematics, earning a master's degree in 1997 and completing her Ph.D. there in 2001. [4] Her dissertation, Binomial Rings and Algebras, was supervised by Frank Wylie Anderson. [5]

She has been a faculty member in the mathematics department at Pacific Lutheran since 2001. [2]

Combining her interests in mathematics and art she is one of 24 mathematicians and artists who make up the Mathemalchemy Team. [6] [7]

Selected publications

Recognition

Sklar was a winner of the Carl B. Allendoerfer Award of the Mathematical Association of America in 2011 for her paper with Gene Abrams, The Graph Menagerie: Abstract Algebra and the Mad Veterinarian. [10] The paper provides a general solution to a class of lattice reduction puzzles exemplified by the following one: [3]

"Suppose a mad veterinarian creates a transmogrifier that can convert one cat into two dogs and five mice, or one dog into three cats and three mice, or a mouse into a cat and a dog. It can also do each of these operations in reverse. Can it, through any sequence of operations, convert two cats into a pack of dogs? How about one cat?"

She was the July 2012 Author of the Month at Ada's Technical Books in Seattle, Washgington.

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  1. ↑ Birth year from Library of Congress catalog entry, retrieved 2018-12-02.
  2. 1 2 3 Curriculum vitae (PDF), archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-11-14, retrieved 2020-08-02
  3. 1 2 Mackenzie, Dana (January 2013), "1 Plus 1 Makes Engaging Book: Mother and Daughter Bridge Generations and Disciplines", Swarthmore College Bulletin
  4. ↑ "Jessica Sklar", Mathematics Faculty and Staff, Pacific Lutheran University , retrieved 2020-05-03
  5. ↑ Jessica Sklar at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. ↑ Mathemalchemy’s Team
  7. ↑ Shinn, Lora (8 January 2021), "1 By the Numbers: PLU Professor Collaborates on a New Artwork Illuminating the Beauty of Math", PLU Marketing and Communications
  8. 1 2 Sriraman, Bharath, ed. (2020). Handbook of the Mathematics of the Arts and Sciences. Springerlink. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-70658-0. ISBN   978-3-319-70658-0. S2CID   241723585.
  9. ↑ Reviews of Mathematics in Popular Culture:
  10. ↑ "MAA Awards Presented" (PDF), Mathematics People, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 58 (10): 1464, November 2011
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