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Jeanne N. Clelland

{{short description|American mathematician}}

Jeanne A. Nielsen Clelland (born 1970)Birth year from [http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2016048650.html Library of Congress catalog entry], retrieved 2018-12-03. is an American mathematician specializing in differential geometry and its applications to differential equations. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Colorado Boulder,{{r|favorite|profile}} and the author of a textbook on moving frames, From Frenet to Cartan: The Method of Moving Frames (Graduate Studies in Mathematics 178, American Mathematical Society, 2017).{{r|ff2c}}

Education

Clelland graduated from Duke University in 1991, and stayed at Duke for her graduate studies, completing her doctorate there in 1996.{{r|x}} Her dissertation, Geometry of Conservation Laws for a Class of Parabolic Partial Differential Equations, was supervised by Robert Bryant.{{r|mgp}}

Recognition

Clelland was awarded the Alice T. Schafer Prize from the Association for Women in Mathematics in 1991.{{r|schafer}} She is also the 2018 winner of the Burton W. Jones Distinguished Teaching Award, from the Rocky Mountain Section of the Mathematical Association of America.{{r|jones}}

References

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{{citation|url=https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/jeanne-clellands-favorite-theorem/|magazine=Scientific American|department=Roots of Unity|first1=Evelyn|last1=Lamb|first2=Kevin|last2=Knudson|title=Jeanne Clelland's Favorite Theorem: The University of Colorado Boulder math professor tells us how to celebrate the Gauss-Bonnet theorem}}

Reviews of From Frenet to Cartan:

  • {{citation|first=Mircea|last=Crâşmăreanu|title=none|journal=zbMATH|zbl=1365.53001}}
  • {{citation|first=Francis|last=Valiquette|journal=Mathematical Reviews|title=none|mr=3618065}}
  • {{citation|first=P. N.|last=Ruane|date=September 2017|journal=MAA Reviews|title=Review|url=https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/from-frenet-to-cartan-the-method-of-moving-frames}}

{{citation|url=http://sections.maa.org/rockymt/|title=2018 Section Teaching Award Winners|publisher=Rocky Mountain Section of the MAA|accessdate=2018-08-16}}

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{{citation|url=https://www.colorado.edu/math/jeanne-nielsen-clelland|title=Jeanne Nielsen Clelland|publisher=Department of Mathematics, University of Colorado Boulder|accessdate=2018-08-16|date=2016-09-29}}

{{citation|last=Gallian|first=Joseph A.|date=June 1, 2019|title=The first twenty-five winners of the AWM Alice T. Schafer Prize|journal=Notices of the American Mathematical Society|volume=66|issue=6|pages=870–874|doi=10.1090/noti1892|doi-access=free}}

{{citation|url=https://experts.colorado.edu/display/fisid_113103|title=Clelland, Jeanne|work=CU Experts|publisher=University of Colorado Boulder|accessdate=2018-08-16}}

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External links

  • [http://math.colorado.edu/~jnc/ Home page]

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Category:20th-century American mathematicians

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Category:21st-century American women mathematicians

Category:Differential geometers

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Category:University of Colorado Boulder faculty

Category:20th-century American women mathematicians

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