Lisa Mantini Explained

Lisa Mantini is an American mathematician.[1]

Education

Mantini earned a Bachelor of Science from the University of Pittsburgh, and a Master of Arts and PhD from Harvard University. All these degrees were in mathematics.[2] [3]

Teaching

Mantini taught at Wellesley College prior to 1985. In 1985 she began to teach at Oklahoma State University.[1] Among other awards (see below), in 1995 she received a Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award, the highest teaching honor bestowed by the Mathematical Association of America.[4] [5] In 1998 she gave the undergraduate lecture course, "Representations of Finite Symmetry Groups", for the Mentoring Program for Women in Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.[6]

Mathematical Association of America Governor

Mantini served the Oklahoma-Arkansas Section of the Mathematical Association of America as Governor from 2002 to 2005 and from 2014 to 2017. This made her the first person to serve the Oklahoma-Arkansas Section of the Mathematical Association of America as Governor for two terms.[1]

Notable publications

Notable recognition

Notes and References

  1. Web site: MAA Awards and Prizes. www.maa.org. 38. July 2020.
  2. Web site: Mathematical Association of America Honors Members with Service Awards | Mathematical Association of America. www.maa.org.
  3. Web site: Lisa Mantini - Scholars | Institute for Advanced Study . April 28, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220428023304/https://www.ias.edu/scholars/lisa-mantini . 28 April 2022 . dead.
  4. Web site: Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award; Mathematical Association of America . www.maa.org . https://web.archive.org/web/20220428021822/https://www.maa.org/member-communities/maa-awards/teaching-awards/haimo-award-distinguished-teaching . 28 April 2022 . dead.
  5. Web site: HMC Professor Receives Haimo Award for Math Instruction. Tamara. Savage. November 9, 2012. The Student Life.
  6. Web site: Program History - Women and Mathematics; Institute for Advanced Study . April 28, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220428025543/https://www.ias.edu/math/wam/about/history . 28 April 2022 . dead.
  7. Web site: OK-AR MAA . April 28, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220428021209/http://sections.maa.org/okar/ . 28 April 2022 . dead.