Stephanie B. Alexander Explained

Stephanie Brewster Brewer Taylor Alexander (September 1, 1941 – November 20, 2023)^[1] was an American mathematician, a professor emerita of mathematics at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.^[2] Her research concerned differential geometry and metric spaces.^[3]

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. After joining the UIUC faculty as a half-time instructor, she became a regular faculty member in 1972.^[3] She retired in 2009 and died in 2023.^[4]

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.
• 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."^[5]

External links

• Home page

Notes and References

1. Web site: Crematory . Renner-Wikoff Chapel & . Obituary for Stephanie Alexander Renner-Wikoff Chapel & Crematory . 2024-02-17 . Obituary for Stephanie Alexander Renner-Wikoff Chapel & Crematory . en.
2. https://math.illinois.edu/directory/faculty-by-type Emeritus faculty
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4. Web site: Stephanie Alexander Obituary (2023) - Urbana, IL - The News-Gazette . 2023-12-09 . Legacy.com.
5. http://www.ams.org/profession/ams-fellows/new-fellows 2014 Class of the Fellows of the AMS