Sylvia Chin-Pi Lu (1928–2014) was a Taiwanese-American mathematician specializing in commutative algebra who was an invited speaker at the 1990 International Congress of Mathematicians in Kyoto.[1] Less than 5% of ICM speakers in algebra and number theory have been women, placing Lu in a rarefied group in this "hall of fame for mathematics".[2] Lu's most highly cited papers are on the properties of prime submodules.[3]
Sylvia Chin-Pi Lu | |
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Born | 1928 |
Died | 2014 (aged 85–86) |
Alma mater | PhD, The Pennsylvania State University, 1963 |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Commutative Algebra |
Institutions | University of Colorado Denver |
Doctoral advisor | Raymond Ayoub |
Lu received her dissertation from The Pennsylvania State University in 1963, under the direction of Raymond Ayoub.[4]