Sylvia Wiegand

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Sylvia Margaret Wiegand , also Sylvia Young Wiegand, (born March 8, 1945 in Cape Town ) is an American mathematician.

Wiegand comes from a well-known family of mathematicians: her paternal grandparents were Grace Chisholm Young and William Henry Young and her father Laurence Chisholm Young (1905-2000) was a mathematics professor in Cape Town and later at the University of Wisconsin . Sylvia Wiegand later initiated a scholarship for math students at the University of Nebraska on behalf of her grandparents.

Sylvia Wiegand moved to Madison, Wisconsin with her family in 1949 . She took an early interest in mathematics and attended university courses in high school. She studied from 1963 at Bryn Mawr College with a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1966, earned her master's degree at the University of Washington in 1967 and continued her studies at the University of Wisconsin, including with Mary Ellen Rudin . In 1972 she did her doctorate with Lawrence Levy (Galois Theory of Essential Expansions of Modules and Vanishing Tensor Powers). She was from 1972 first instructor and from 1974 assistant professor and from 1976 associate professor at the University of Nebraska . Her husband Roger Wiegand was Associate Professor there from 1972 and Professor from 1976. In 1987 she also received a full professorship (at that time as the only female professor in her faculty).

She deals with commutative algebra , including the prime spectrum of a Noetherian ring, decomposition into direct sums and the cancellation problem of one-dimensional rings.

Wiegand was the editor of Communications in Algebra and the Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics. From 1997 to 2000 she was on the Executive Board of Directors of the Canadian Mathematical Society and from 1994 to 1996 on the Council of the American Mathematical Society . From 1997 to 1999 she was President of the Association for Women in Mathematics .

She is a passionate long-distance runner (marathon, ultramarathon).

Fonts

  • Editor with Carl Faith : Module Theory, Lecture notes in mathematics, Springer, 1979

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sylvia Wiegand in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
  2. ↑ Your dissertation was published in part in Wiegand, Galois theory of essential extensions of modules, Canadian J. Math., Volume 24, 1972, pp. 573-579
  3. ↑ Entry in Pamela Kalte u. a. American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
personal data
SURNAME Wiegand, Sylvia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wiegand, Sylvia Margaret; Wiegand, Sylvia Young
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Cape Town