Lynne Heather Walling (October 9, 1958 – May 28, 2021) was an American mathematician specializing in number theory,[1] who became a reader in pure mathematics at the University of Bristol.[2][3] She was known for her research in number theory. She died on 28 May 2021.[4]
Lynne Heather Walling | |
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Died | May 28, 2021 |
Alma mater | Dartmouth College |
Known for | Number theory |
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Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | University of Bristol |
Thesis | Theta Series Attached to Lattices of Arbitrary Rank (1987) |
Doctoral advisor | Thomas Richard Shemanske |
Website | people |
Walling was born on October 9, 1958, and grew up in northern California. She began her undergraduate studies at the University of California, San Diego, and after a two-year gap continued at Sonoma State University, studying accounting at first but then finishing a bachelor's degree in mathematics.[1] She received her Ph.D. from Dartmouth College in 1987 under Thomas Richard Shemanske.[5]
She then taught at St. Olaf College, Minnesota. She lived in an old farmhouse, which had no indoor plumbing. She built a hand-operated pump, enabling her to install a bathtub in the kitchen, beside a wood-burning stove.[3]
She became a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1990. In 1995 she received tenure, and in 2000 became a full Professor. She came to Bristol as a reader in mathematics in 2007.[3] From 2011 to 2015 she was Head of Pure Mathematics, and from 2018 was Director of the Institute of Pure Mathematics.[3]
In 2012, Walling became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[6]
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