Ellen Gethner

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Ellen Gethner
Born1960 (age 6061)
United States
OccupationMathematician and Computer Scientist
Known forResearch in graph theory, winning the Mathematical Association of America's Chauvenet Prize in 2002

Ellen Gethner is a US mathematician and computer scientist specializing in graph theory who won the Mathematical Association of America's Chauvenet Prize [1] in 2002 with co-authors Stan Wagon and Brian Wick for their paper A stroll through the Gaussian Primes. [2]

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Career

Gethner has two doctorates. She completed her first, a PhD in mathematics from Ohio State University, in 1992; her dissertation, Rational Period Functions For The Modular Group And Related Discrete Groups, was supervised by L. Alayne Parson. She completed a second PhD in computer science from the University of British Columbia in 2002, with a dissertation Computational Aspects of Escher Tilings supervised by Nick Pippenger and David G. Kirkpatrick. [3] Gethner is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at University of Colorado Denver. [4]

Research

Gethner became interested in connections between geometry and art after a high school lesson using a kaleidoscope to turn a drawing into an Escher-like tessellation of the plane. This later inspired some of her research on wallpaper patterns and on converting music into visual patterns. [5]

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References

  1. "Chauvenet Prizes | Mathematical Association of America". Mathematical Association of America . Retrieved 2019-04-07.
  2. Gethner, Ellen; Wagon, Stan; Wick, Brian (1998). "A Stroll Through the Gaussian Primes". American Mathematical Monthly . 105 (4): 327–337. doi:10.2307/2589708. ISSN   0002-9890. JSTOR   2589708.
  3. Ellen Gethner at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. "UC Denver faculty and staff directory".
  5. "Making art from math". Impact. Vol. 3 no. 1. University of Colorado Denver College of Engineering and Applied Science. 2014. pp. 6–8.