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{{short description|American mathematician and computer scientist}}
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'''Ellen Gethner''' is a US mathematician and computer scientist specializing in [[graph theory]] who won the [[Mathematical Association of America]]'s [[Chauvenet Prize]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.maa.org/programs-and-communities/member-communities/maa-awards/writing-awards/chauvenet-prizes|title=Chauvenet Prizes {{!}} Mathematical Association of America|website=[[Mathematical Association of America]]|access-date=2019-04-07}}</ref> in 2002 with co-authors [[Stan Wagon]] and Brian Wick for their paper ''A stroll through the Gaussian Primes''.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Gethner|first=Ellen|last2=Wagon|first2=Stan|last3=Wick|first3=Brian|date=1998|title=A Stroll Through the Gaussian Primes|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2589708|journal=[[American Mathematical Monthly]]|volume=105|issue=4|pages=327–337|doi=10.2307/2589708|issn=0002-9890}}</ref>
'''Ellen Gethner''' is a US mathematician and computer scientist specializing in [[graph theory]] who won the [[Mathematical Association of America]]'s [[Chauvenet Prize]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.maa.org/programs-and-communities/member-communities/maa-awards/writing-awards/chauvenet-prizes|title=Chauvenet Prizes {{!}} Mathematical Association of America|website=[[Mathematical Association of America]]|access-date=2019-04-07}}</ref> in 2002 with co-authors [[Stan Wagon]] and Brian Wick for their paper ''A stroll through the Gaussian Primes''.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Gethner|first=Ellen|last2=Wagon|first2=Stan|last3=Wick|first3=Brian|date=1998|title=A Stroll Through the Gaussian Primes|journal=[[American Mathematical Monthly]]|volume=105|issue=4|pages=327–337|doi=10.2307/2589708|issn=0002-9890|jstor=2589708}}</ref>


== Career ==
== Career ==

Revision as of 23:18, 10 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

  1. ^ "Chauvenet Prizes | Mathematical Association of America". Mathematical Association of America. Retrieved 2019-04-07.
  2. ^ 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. JSTOR 2589708.
  3. ^ Ellen Gethner at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^ "UC Denver faculty and staff directory". {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  5. ^ "Making art from math". Impact. Vol. 3, no. 1. University of Colorado Denver College of Engineering and Applied Science. 2014. pp. 6–8.

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