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== Career == |
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Gethner has two doctorates. She completed her first, a PhD in mathematics from [[Ohio State University]], in 1992; her dissertation, ''Rational Period Functions For The Modular Group And Related Discrete Groups'', was supervised by L. Alayne Parson. She completed a second PhD in computer science from the [[University of British Columbia]] in 2002, with a dissertation ''Computational Aspects of Escher Tilings'' supervised by [[Nick Pippenger]] and [[David G. Kirkpatrick]].<ref name="auto">{{mathgenealogy|id=10613}}</ref> Gethner is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at [[University of Colorado Denver]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://engineering.ucdenver.edu/about/faculty-staff-directory|title=UC Denver faculty and staff directory|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref> |
Gethner has two doctorates. She completed her first, a PhD in mathematics from [[Ohio State University]], in 1992; her dissertation, ''Rational Period Functions For The Modular Group And Related Discrete Groups'', was supervised by L. Alayne Parson. She completed a second PhD in computer science from the [[University of British Columbia]] in 2002, with a dissertation ''Computational Aspects of Escher Tilings'' supervised by [[Nick Pippenger]] and [[David G. Kirkpatrick]].<ref name="auto">{{mathgenealogy|id=10613}}</ref> Gethner is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at [[University of Colorado Denver]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://engineering.ucdenver.edu/about/faculty-staff-directory|title=UC Denver faculty and staff directory|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref> |
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==Research== |
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Gethner became interested in connections between geometry and art after a high school lesson using a kaleidoscope to turn a drawing into an [[M. C. Escher|Escher]]-like [[tessellation]] of the plane. This later inspired some of her research on [[wallpaper pattern]]s and on converting music into visual patterns.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Making art from math|pages=6–8|journal=Impact|volume=3|issue=1|year=2014|publisher=University of Colorado Denver College of Engineering and Applied Science|url=https://issuu.com/ucdengineering/docs/impactmagazine2014}}</ref> |
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==References== |
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Revision as of 23:42, 1 May 2019
Ellen Gethner is a US mathematician and computer scientist specializing in graph theory who won the Mathematical Association of America's Chauvenet Prize[1] in 2002 with co-authors Stan Wagon and Brian Wick for their paper A stroll through the Gaussian Primes.[2]
Career
Gethner has two doctorates. She completed her first, a PhD in mathematics from Ohio State University, in 1992; her dissertation, Rational Period Functions For The Modular Group And Related Discrete Groups, was supervised by L. Alayne Parson. She completed a second PhD in computer science from the University of British Columbia in 2002, with a dissertation Computational Aspects of Escher Tilings supervised by Nick Pippenger and David G. Kirkpatrick.[3] Gethner is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at University of Colorado Denver.[4]
Research
Gethner became interested in connections between geometry and art after a high school lesson using a kaleidoscope to turn a drawing into an Escher-like tessellation of the plane. This later inspired some of her research on wallpaper patterns and on converting music into visual patterns.[5]
References
- ^ "Chauvenet Prizes | Mathematical Association of America". Mathematical Association of America. Retrieved 2019-04-07.
- ^ Gethner, Ellen; Wagon, Stan; Wick, Brian (1998). "A Stroll Through the Gaussian Primes". American Mathematical Monthly. 105 (4): 327–337. doi:10.2307/2589708. ISSN 0002-9890.
- ^ Ellen Gethner at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "UC Denver faculty and staff directory".
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ "Making art from math". Impact. Vol. 3, no. 1. University of Colorado Denver College of Engineering and Applied Science. 2014. pp. 6–8.
External links
- Ellen Gethner publications indexed by Google Scholar
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