Ruth Silverman
{{short description|American mathematician}}
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| alma_mater = University of Washington
| thesis_title = Decomposition of plane convex sets
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| discipline = Mathematics
| sub_discipline = computational geometry
| workplaces = New Jersey Institute of Technology,
Southern Connecticut State College,
University of the District of Columbia,
University of Maryland, College Park
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Ruth Silverman (born 1936 or 1937, died April 25, 2011){{r|wapo}} was an American mathematician and computer scientist known for her research in computational geometry. She was one of the original founders of the Association for Women in Mathematics in 1971.{{r|awm|change}}
Education and career
Silverman completed a Ph.D. in 1970 at the University of Washington.{{r|diss}}
She was a faculty member at the New Jersey Institute of Technology,
an associate professor at Southern Connecticut State College,{{r|scsc}} a computer science instructor at the University of the District of Columbia, and a researcher in the Center for Automation Research at the University of Maryland, College Park.{{r|wapo}}
Contributions
Silverman's dissertation, Decomposition of plane convex sets,{{r|diss}} concerned the characterization of compact convex sets in the Euclidean plane that cannot be formed as Minkowski sums of simpler sets.{{r|schneider}}
She became known for her research in computational geometry and particular for highly cited publications on k-means clustering{{ran|KM}} and nearest neighbor search.{{ran|NN}} Other topics in Silverman's research include robust statistics{{ran|LT}} and small sets of points that meet every line in finite projective planes.{{ran|IP}}
Selected publications
{{rma|IP|{{citation
| last1 = Erdős | first1 = P. | author1-link = Paul Erdős
| last2 = Silverman | first2 = R.
| last3 = Stein | first3 = A.
| journal = Ars Combinatoria
| mr = 706303
| pages = 247–259
| title = Intersection properties of families containing sets of nearly the same size
| volume = 15
| year = 1983}}
|tw=2em}}
{{rma|NN|{{citation
| last1 = Arya | first1 = Sunil
| last2 = Mount | first2 = David M. | author2-link = David Mount
| last3 = Netanyahu | first3 = Nathan S. | author3-link = Nathan Netanyahu
| last4 = Silverman | first4 = Ruth
| last5 = Wu | first5 = Angela Y. | author5-link = Angela Y. Wu
| doi = 10.1145/293347.293348
| issue = 6
| journal = Journal of the ACM
| mr = 1678846
| pages = 891–923
| title = An optimal algorithm for approximate nearest neighbor searching in fixed dimensions
| volume = 45
| year = 1998| s2cid = 8193729
| doi-access = free
}}
|tw=2em}}
{{rma|KM|{{citation
| last1 = Kanungo | first1 = T.
| last2 = Mount | first2 = D. M. | author2-link = David Mount
| last3 = Netanyahu | first3 = N. S. | author3-link = Nathan Netanyahu
| last4 = Piatko | first4 = C. D. | author4-link = Christine Piatko
| last5 = Silverman | first5 = R.
| last6 = Wu | first6 = A. Y. | author6-link = Angela Y. Wu
| doi = 10.1109/tpami.2002.1017616
| issue = 7
| journal = IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
| pages = 881–892
| title = An efficient k-means clustering algorithm: analysis and implementation
| volume = 24
| year = 2002}}
|tw=2em}}
{{rma|LT|{{citation
| last1 = Mount | first1 = David M. | author1-link = David Mount
| last2 = Netanyahu | first2 = Nathan S. | author2-link = Nathan Netanyahu
| last3 = Piatko | first3 = Christine D.
| last4 = Silverman | first4 = Ruth
| last5 = Wu | first5 = Angela Y.
| doi = 10.1007/s00453-012-9721-8
| issue = 1
| journal = Algorithmica
| mr = 3172284
| pages = 148–183
| title = On the least trimmed squares estimator
| volume = 69
| year = 2014| s2cid = 6796756 }}
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References
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{{citation|title=A Brief History of the Association for Women in Mathematics: The Presidents' Perspectives|first=Lenore|last=Blum|author-link=Lenore Blum|journal=Notices of the American Mathematical Society|volume=38|issue=7|date=September 1991|pages=738–774|url=http://www.awm-math.org/articles/notices/199107/blum/index.html|access-date=2018-02-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170729084943/http://www.awm-math.org/articles/notices/199107/blum/index.html|archive-date=2017-07-29|url-status=dead}}. See section "What we did ... (In the beginning): Atlantic City".
MathSciNet record for Silverman's dissertation: {{MR|2620174}}
| last = Schneider | first = Rolf
| edition = 2nd
| isbn = 978-1-107-60101-7
| mr = 3155183
| pages = 168–169
| publisher = Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
| series = Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications
| title = Convex bodies: the Brunn-Minkowski theory
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=VfbXAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA168
| volume = 151
| year = 2014}}
{{citation|title=News and Notices|journal=American Mathematical Monthly|volume=86|issue=5|date=May 1979|pages=418–420|jstor=2321116|doi=10.1080/00029890.1979.11994820}}
{{citation|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/washingtonpost/obituary.aspx?n=ruth-silverman&pid=150618150|title=Ruth Silverman (age 74)|newspaper=Washington Post|department=Paid death notices|date=April 28, 2011}}
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External links
- {{cite book | last1=Case | first1=B.A. | last2=Leggett | first2=A.M. | title=Complexities: Women in Mathematics |title-link= Complexities: Women in Mathematics | publisher=Princeton University Press | year=2016 | isbn=978-1-4008-8016-4 | at=[https://books.google.com/books?id=PNIJDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA81 p. 81] }}
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Category:American computer scientists
Category:20th-century American mathematicians
Category:21st-century American mathematicians
Category:American women computer scientists
Category:Researchers in geometric algorithms
Category:University of Washington alumni
Category:New Jersey Institute of Technology faculty
Category:Southern Connecticut State University faculty
Category:University of the District of Columbia faculty
Category:Year of birth uncertain