Giuliana Davidoff

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Giuliana P. Davidoff is an American mathematician specializing in number theory and expander graphs. She is the Robert L. Rooke Professor of Mathematics and the chair of mathematics and statistics at Mount Holyoke College. [1]

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Education and career

Davidoff is a graduate of Rollins College. [1] She completed her Ph.D. in 1984 at New York University, with Peter Sarnak as her doctoral advisor; her dissertation was Statistical Properties of Certain Exponential Sums. [2]

Books

Davidoff is a coauthor of:

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References

  1. 1 2 "Giuliana Davidoff", People, Mount Holyoke College, 13 July 2016, retrieved 2020-02-21
  2. ↑ Giuliana Davidoff at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ↑ Reviews of Elementary Number Theory, Group Theory, and Ramanujan Graphs:
  4. ↑ Reviews of Geometry of Numbers:
  5. ↑ Ostebee, Arnold (December 1997), "Telegraphic reviews", American Mathematical Monthly , 104 (10): 992–997, doi:10.1080/00029890.1997.11990753, JSTOR   2974497
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