Gerd Grubb

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Gerd Grubb (born 1939) [1] [2] is a Danish mathematician known for her research on pseudo-differential operators. She is a professor emerita in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Copenhagen, [3] where she was the first female professor of mathematics. [4]

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Education and career

Grubb was born on 12 February 1939 in Copenhagen, the daughter of two chemical engineers. She was a student at the Øregård Gymnasium, [1] and then studied various sciences at the University of Copenhagen from 1956 until 1959. After earning a master's degree in mathematics at Aarhus University in 1963, she went to Stanford University for doctoral study in mathematics, completing a Ph.D. in 1966. [5] Her dissertation, A Characterization of the Non-Local Boundary Value Problems Associated With an Elliptic Operator, was supervised by Ralph S. Phillips. [6] She completed a habilitation (Dr. Phil.) in 1975 at the University of Copenhagen, with the habilitation thesis Semiboundedness and other properties of normal boundary problems for elliptic partial differential operators. [5]

She returned to the University of Copenhagen as an assistant professor in 1966, eventually becoming full professor there in 1994. [1]

Books

Grubb is the author of the books Functional calculus of pseudodifferential boundary problems (Progress in Mathematics 65, Birkhäuser, 1986; 2nd ed., 1996) [7] and Distributions and operators (Graduate Texts in Mathematics 252, Springer, 2009). [8]

Recognition

Grubb is a member of the Danish Academy of Natural Sciences  [ da ]. [1] [9] The University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne gave her an honorary doctorate in 1988. [1] [2] [5] She was promoted to hedersdoktor (an honorary doctorate) at the University of Lund (Sweden) in 2016. [10] In 2020, she received the Gold Medal of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. [4]

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  7. Reviews of Functional calculus of pseudodifferential boundary problems: Luigi Rodino (1988), MR 0885088; Luigi Rodino (review of 2nd ed.), Zbl   0844.35002
  8. Reviews of Distributions and operators: Fabio Nicola (2010), MR 2453959; David Jornet, Zbl   1171.47001
  9. "Members as of 10 December 2017", Annual Report for 2017 (PDF) (in Danish), Danish Academy of Natural Sciences, 2018, pp. 20–36
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