Lucy Joan Slater
Lucy Joan Slater (born January 5, 1922 in Cambridge , † June 4, 2008 ibid) was a British mathematician and computer scientist.
Lucy Slater grew up in Portsmouth . Her father John Wardle Slater (1892-1931) was a chemist with the Admiralty, her mother Lucy Slater (nee Dalton of Oldham, 1893-1975) was a classical philologist. Lucy Joan Slater received her doctorate in 1950 from the University of London under Wilfrid Norman Bailey (Functions of hypergeometric type). In the early 1950s she pioneered the development of operating systems for the early computers at Cambridge. She later worked in the UK civil service developing programs for econometrics . She is buried next to her mother in Cambridge (Ascension Burial Ground).
She dealt with hypergeometric series and functions (including generalizations of the Rogers-Ramanujan identities ).
Fonts
- Confluent hypergeometric functions, Cambridge University Press 1962
- Generalized hypergeometric functions, Cambridge University Press 1966
- Fortran programs for economists, Cambridge University Press, 1967
- First steps in basic Fortran, London: Chapman & Hall, 1971
- More Fortran programs for economists, Cambridge University Press, 1972
- GEM: a general econometric matrix program, Cambridge University Press, 1976
- with HM Pesaran: Dynamic regression: theory and algorithms, Halsted Press, 1980
- Further Identities of the Rogers-Ramanujan Type, Proc. London Math. Soc. Ser. 2, Vol. 54, 1952, pp. 147-167
Web links
- Find a grave
- Literature by and about Lucy Joan Slater in the WorldCat bibliographic database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lucy Joan Slater in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Slater, Lucy Joan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British mathematician and computer scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 5, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cambridge |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 4, 2008 |
| Place of death | Cambridge |