Linda Gilbert Saucier

Linda Phillips was the daughter of Rudd George Phillips, an education specialist for the United States Air Force.{{r|rudd}}

She grew up in Gulfport, Mississippi, and earned B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Louisiana Tech University in 1970, 1972, and 1977 respectively.

Her dissertation applied linear algebra to epidemiology; it was titled An application of the Jordan canonical form to the epidemic problem.

She also became a faculty member at Louisiana Tech with her husband and co-author, Jimmie Gilbert, who died in 2005.{{r|gulfport}}{{r|jimobit}} She retired from the University of South Carolina Upstate and was given the distinguished professor emerita title in 2011.{{r|min}}

Under the name Linda Gilbert, she became the author of "more than 37 mathematics textbooks" including Elements of Modern Algebra, College Algebra, College Trigonometry, Precalculus, and Matrix Theory.{{r|books|ema}}

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Category:University of South Carolina Upstate faculty

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