Celia Hoyles

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Celia Hoyles (born May 18, 1946 in London ) is a British mathematician . She is Professor of Mathematics Education at the UCL Institute of Education.

Life and research

Hoyles was born Celia Mary French, the youngest of three daughters, and grew up in a middle-class family in the suburbs of Essex . She attended Loughton County High School from 1957 to 1964, then studied mathematics at Manchester University and graduated in 1967 with a First Class Honors degree in mathematics. She was awarded the Dalton Prize for the best high-class degree in mathematics. In 1967 she started teaching in London. In 1969 she married Martin Hoyles and studied at the University of London for a PGCE (Post Graduate Certificate in Education Teaching Qualification). She received the PGCE with Honors in 1971 and continued her part-time study for a Masters degree. In 1972 she became a lecturer at the Polytechnic of North London (today: London Metropolitan University ) and in 1973 received a Master of Education with honors from the University of London. In 1975 she began her PhD, parallel to her work at the Polytechnic of North London. In 1980 she completed her doctorate with a didactic dissertation. In 1984 she was appointed Professor of Mathematics Didactics at the Institute of Education at the University of London (now the Institute of Education at University College London). This was a newly established chair and when she was appointed she was the youngest professor at the University of London. In the late 1980s she co-hosted Fun and Games, a prime-time television quiz show about math. In 1996 she married her second husband, the mathematician Richard Noss, with whom she wrote many articles from the mid-1980s. From 2004 to 2007 she was government adviser on mathematics and from 2007 to 2013 Director of the National Center for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics. From 2014 to 2015 she was President of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. She holds honorary doctorates from The Open University (2006), Loughborough University (2008) and Sheffield Hallam University (2011).

Awards

  • 2003: Hans Freudenthal Medal, International Commission for Mathematics Education
  • 2004: Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), New Year Honors 2004
  • 2010: Kavli Education Medal, Royal Society
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS)

Memberships

  • Council for National Academic Awards (1979-84)
  • International Committee of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (1983-87)
  • President: British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics (1984–86)
  • Economic and Social Research Council Research Grants Board (1994-99)
  • Chair: Joint Mathematical Council of the United Kingdom (1999–03)
  • Founding Member: Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education (2002-04)
  • Executive Committee of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (2006-09);
  • European Mathematical Society, Committee for Mathematics Education (2008–16)
  • President: Mathematics Section of the British Science Association (2013)
  • President: Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (2014–15)
  • Advisory Board for the new Interactive Gallery, Science Museum (2014)
  • Advisory Board for the new Mathematics Gallery, Science Museum (2014)

Publications (selection)

literature

  • 2014: Christopher Clapham and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (5th ed.).

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personal data
SURNAME Hoyles, Celia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hoyles, Celia Mary
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH London