Stephanie B. Alexander

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Stephanie Brewster Brewer Taylor Alexander (September 1, 1941 – November 20, 2023)

University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.[2] Her research concerned differential geometry and metric spaces.[3]

Education and career

Alexander earned her Ph.D. from UIUC in 1967, under the supervision of Richard L. Bishop, with a thesis entitled Reducibility of Euclidean Immersions of Low Codimensions.[4] After joining the UIUC faculty as a half-time instructor, she became a regular faculty member in 1972.[3] She retired in 2009[5] and died in 2023.[6]

Books

  • With Vitali Kapovitch and Anton Petrunin, Alexander authored the book An Invitation to Alexandrov Geometry: CAT(0) Spaces (Springer, 2019).

Recognition

  • At Illinois, Alexander won the Luckman Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award and the William Prokasy Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in 1993.[5]
  • In 2014 she was elected as a fellow of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to geometry, for high-quality exposition, and for exceptional teaching of mathematics."[7]

References

  1. ^ Crematory, Renner-Wikoff Chapel &. "Obituary for Stephanie Alexander | Renner-Wikoff Chapel & Crematory". Obituary for Stephanie Alexander | Renner-Wikoff Chapel & Crematory. Retrieved 2024-02-17.
  2. ^ Emeritus faculty, UIUC Mathematics, retrieved 2014-06-16.
  3. ^ a b "Distinguished Mathematical Research award recipients" (PDF), Math Times, UIUC Mathematics Department: 3, Fall 2004, archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-04-19.
  4. ^ Stephanie Brewster Brewer Taylor Alexander at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ^ a b Mathematics Calendar 2012 (PDF), UIUC Mathematics Department, p. October
  6. ^ "Stephanie Alexander Obituary (2023) - Urbana, IL - The News-Gazette". Legacy.com. Retrieved 2023-12-09.
  7. ^ 2014 Class of the Fellows of the AMS, retrieved 2014-06-16.

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