Jane Piore Gilman

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Jane Piore Gilman (born 1945) [1] is an American mathematician, a distinguished professor of mathematics at Rutgers University. [2] Her research concerns topology and group theory.

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Education and career

Gilman is one of three children of physicist Emanuel R. Piore. [3] She did her undergraduate studies at the University of Chicago, graduating in 1965, [2] and received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1971. Her thesis, supervised by Lipman Bers, was entitled Relative Modular Groups in Teichmüller Spaces. [4] She worked for a year as an instructor at Stony Brook University before joining Rutgers in 1972. [2]

Books

Gilman is the author of a monograph on the problem of testing whether pairs of elements of PSL(2,R) (the group of orientation-preserving isometries of the hyperbolic plane) generate a Fuchsian group (a discrete subgroup of PSL(2,R)). It is Two-generator Discrete Subgroups of PSL(2, R) (Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society 117, 1995). [5] With Irwin Kra and Rubí E. Rodríguez she is the co-author of a graduate-level textbook on complex analysis, Complex Analysis: In the Spirit of Lipman Bers (Graduate Texts in Mathematics 245, Springer, 2007; 2nd ed., 2013). [6]

Recognition

In 2014, she was elected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to topology and group theory, and for service to her department and the larger community." [7]

References

  1. ↑ Birth year from ISNI authority control file, retrieved 2018-11-27.
  2. 1 2 3 Curriculum vitae Archived 2013-04-09 at the Wayback Machine , February 8, 2013, retrieved 2014-06-14.
  3. ↑ Saxon, Wolfgang (May 12, 2000), "Emanuel Piore, 91, Leader And Researcher at I.B.M.", New York Times .
  4. ↑ Jane Piore Gilman at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ↑ Review of Two-generator Discrete Subgroups of PSL(2, R) by C. Maclachlan (1997), MR   1290281.
  6. ↑ Review of Complex Analysis: In the Spirit of Lipman Bers (2nd ed.) by Leonid V. Kovalev, MR   2986247
  7. ↑ 2014 Class of the Fellows of the AMS, retrieved 2014-06-16.
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