External links
- Case, B.A.; Leggett, A.M. (2016). Complexities: Women in Mathematics. Princeton University Press. p. 81. ISBN 978-1-4008-8016-4.
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| Born | 1936 or 1937 |
| Died | April 25, 2011, age 74 |
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| Alma mater | University of Washington |
| Thesis | Decomposition of plane convex sets |
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| Discipline | Mathematics |
| Sub-discipline | computational geometry |
| Institutions | New Jersey Institute of Technology, Southern Connecticut State College, University of the District of Columbia, University of Maryland,College Park |
Ruth Silverman (born 1936 or 1937,died April 25,2011) [1] was an American mathematician and computer scientist known for her research in computational geometry. She was one of the original founders of the Association for Women in Mathematics in 1971. [2] [3]
Silverman completed a Ph.D. in 1970 at the University of Washington. [4] She was a faculty member at the New Jersey Institute of Technology,an associate professor at Southern Connecticut State College, [5] a computer science instructor at the University of the District of Columbia,and a researcher in the Center for Automation Research at the University of Maryland,College Park. [1]
Silverman's dissertation,Decomposition of plane convex sets, [4] concerned the characterization of compact convex sets in the Euclidean plane that cannot be formed as Minkowski sums of simpler sets. [6]
She became known for her research in computational geometry and particular for highly cited publications on k-means clustering [KM] and nearest neighbor search. [NN] Other topics in Silverman's research include robust statistics [LT] and small sets of points that meet every line in finite projective planes. [IP]
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| NN. | Arya, Sunil; Mount, David M.; Netanyahu, Nathan S.; Silverman, Ruth; Wu, Angela Y. (1998), "An optimal algorithm for approximate nearest neighbor searching in fixed dimensions", Journal of the ACM , 45 (6): 891–923, doi: 10.1145/293347.293348 , MR 1678846, S2CID 8193729 |
| KM. | Kanungo, T.; Mount, D. M.; Netanyahu, N. S.; Piatko, C. D.; Silverman, R.; Wu, A. Y. (2002), "An efficient k-means clustering algorithm: analysis and implementation", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 24 (7): 881–892, Bibcode:2002ITPAM..24..881K, doi:10.1109/tpami.2002.1017616 |
| LT. | Mount, David M.; Netanyahu, Nathan S.; Piatko, Christine D.; Silverman, Ruth; Wu, Angela Y. (2014), "On the least trimmed squares estimator", Algorithmica, 69 (1): 148–183, doi:10.1007/s00453-012-9721-8, MR 3172284, S2CID 6796756 |
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