Stephanie Brewster Brewer Taylor Alexander (died November 20, 2023) was an American mathematician, a professor emerita of mathematics at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.[1] Her research concerned differential geometry and metric spaces.[2]

Education and career

Alexander earned her Ph.D. from UIUC in 1967, under the supervision of Richard L. Bishop, with a thesis entitled Reducibility of Euclidean Immersions of Low Codimensions.[3] After joining the UIUC faculty as a half-time instructor, she became a regular faculty member in 1972.[2] She retired in 2009[4] and died in 2023.[5]

Books

  • With Vitali Kapovitch and Anton Petrunin, Alexander authored the book An Invitation to Alexandrov Geometry: CAT(0) Spaces (Springer, 2019).

Recognition

  • At Illinois, Alexander won the Luckman Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award and the William Prokasy Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in 1993.[4]
  • In 2014 she was elected as a fellow of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to geometry, for high-quality exposition, and for exceptional teaching of mathematics."[6]

References

  1. ↑ Emeritus faculty, UIUC Mathematics, retrieved 2014-06-16.
  2. 1 2 "Distinguished Mathematical Research award recipients" (PDF), Math Times, UIUC Mathematics Department: 3, Fall 2004, archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-04-19.
  3. ↑ Stephanie Brewster Brewer Taylor Alexander at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. 1 2 Mathematics Calendar 2012 (PDF), UIUC Mathematics Department, p. October
  5. ↑ "Stephanie Alexander Obituary (2023) - Urbana, IL - The News-Gazette". Legacy.com. Retrieved 2023-12-09.
  6. ↑ 2014 Class of the Fellows of the AMS, retrieved 2014-06-16.
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