Helen Giessler Grundman is an American mathematician. She is the Director of Education and Diversity at the American Mathematical Society and Research Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Bryn Mawr College.[1] Grundman is noted for her research in number theory and efforts to increase diversity in mathematics.
Helen Grundman | |
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| Citizenship | United States |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Known for | Number theory |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | American Mathematical Society |
| Thesis | The Arithmetic Genus of Hilbert Modular Threefolds (1977) |
| Doctoral advisor | P. Emery (Paul) Thomas |
Education
editHelen Grundman earned her PhD in 1989 from the University of California, Berkeley, under the supervision of P. Emery Thomas.[2]
Employment
editAfter receiving her PhD, Grundman spent two years as a C. L. E. Moore instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She became a professor at Bryn Mawr College in 1991. In 2016, Grundman was named as the inaugural Director of Education and Diversity for the American Mathematical Society.[3]
Research
editIn 1994, Grundman proved that sequences of more than 2n consecutive Harshad numbers in base n do not exist.[G94]
Honors
editIn 2017, Grundman was selected as a fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics in the inaugural class.[4]
Selected publications
edit| G94. | Grundman, H. G. (1994). "Sequences of consecutive n-Niven numbers" (PDF). Fibonacci Quarterly. 32 (2): 174–175. doi:10.1080/00150517.1994.12429245. ISSN 0015-0517. Zbl 0796.11002.
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References
edit- ^ "Faculty profile at Bryn Mawr". Archived from the original on 2017-08-16. Retrieved 2017-08-15.
- ^ Helen G. Grundman at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "AMS names Helen Grundman Director of Education and Diversity". American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
- ^ "2018 Inaugural Class of AWM Fellows". awm-math.org/awards/awm-fellows/. Association for Women in Mathematics. Retrieved 9 January 2021.