Gail S. Nelson

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Gail Susan Nelson (born 1959) [1] is a mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at Carleton College. [2]

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Education and career

Nelson did her undergraduate studies at the University of North Dakota. [2] She completed her Ph.D. in 1988 at the University of Minnesota. Her dissertation concerned partial differential equations, and was supervised by Eugene Barry Fabes; it was Bounds for the Fundamental Solutions of Degenerate Parabolic Partial Differential Equations. [3] She joined the Carleton College faculty in the same year. [2]

Books

Nelson is the author of two textbooks in mathematics:

She is also the editor-in-chief of the "Problem Books" book series of the Mathematical Association of America. [6]

References

  1. ↑ Birth year from SUDOC authority control file, retrieved 2019-01-19.
  2. 1 2 3 Gail Nelson, Professor of Mathematics, Carleton College, retrieved 2018-05-20
  3. ↑ Gail S. Nelson at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ↑ Reviews of Recurrence and Topology:
    • Pelczar, Andrzej, zbMATH, Zbl   1117.37001 {{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Hurley, Michael (2008), Mathematical Reviews, MR   2330357 {{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • mihus (2011), "Review", European Mathematical Society Reviews, archived from the original on 2018-05-22, retrieved 2018-05-21
  5. ↑ Reviews of A User-Friendly Introduction to Lebesgue Measure and Integration:
  6. ↑ Book Series, Mathematical Association of America, archived from the original on 2020-03-24, retrieved 2018-05-20
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