David Webb (mathematician)

{{short description|American mathematician}}

David Webb is an American mathematician known for his work on hearing the shape of a drum.

Webb attended Cornell University, where he received his PhD in 1983 under the supervision of Kenneth Stephen Brown.{{mathgenealogy|id=79190|name=David Webb}} He is currently a professor of mathematics at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.[http://dartmouth.edu/faculty-directory/david-lea-webb Faculty directory listing] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202163743/http://dartmouth.edu/faculty-directory/david-lea-webb |date=2014-02-02 }}, retrieved 2014-01-18.

In 2001 Webb and co-author Carolyn S. Gordon were awarded the Mathematical Association of America Chauvenet Prize for their 1996 American Scientist paper, "You can't hear the shape of a drum".[http://www.maa.org/programs/maa-awards/writing-awards/chauvenet-prizes Chauvenet Prizes], Mathematical Association of America, retrieved 2014-01-19.{{cite journal | last=Gordon | first=Carolyn | last2=Webb | first2=David | title=You Can't Hear the Shape of a Drum | journal=American Scientist | publisher=Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society | volume=84 | issue=1 | year=1996 | issn=00030996 | jstor=29775597 | pages=46–55 | url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/29775597 | access-date=2022-11-15}}