Pamela Liebeck

Pamela Liebeck (née Lawrence, 1930–2012) was a British mathematician and mathematics educator, the author of two books on mathematics.

Life

Liebeck was born in Bromley on 11 July 1930,[1] grew up in Surrey, and read mathematics at Somerville College, Oxford beginning in 1949. At Oxford, she also played on the cricket and tennis teams. After additional study at the University of Cambridge, she became a mathematics teacher. Her husband Hans Liebeck was also an Oxford mathematics student; they met through a shared love of playing chamber music, married in 1953, and moved together to Cape Town University in South Africa in 1955, where Liebeck taught mathematics part-time while raising two children and studying music.[2]

In 1961, Liebeck and her husband returned to England. As their (now three) children grew old enough, she returned to teaching, first at the Madeley College of Education in Newcastle-under-Lyme (eventually part of Staffordshire University) and then at Keele University, where her husband had been posted since their return from England.[2]

Her son, Martin W. Liebeck,[3] became a mathematics professor at Imperial College London.[4]

She died on 3 July 2012.[3]

Books

Liebeck wrote two books on mathematics:

  • Vectors and Matrices (Pergamon, 1971)[5]
  • How Children Learn Mathematics: A Guide for Parents and Teachers (Penguin, 1984)[6]
gollark: Also, that's price discrimination and very dodecahedral.
gollark: Intelligence 407.5 workaround: just buy one bottle, leave the store, buy another one, and so onb.
gollark: > made in china> made
gollark: That makes sense, because the economy is of course just some abstract bunch of numbers which go up and down and not at all to do with stuff like "producing food" and "running hospitals".
gollark: I don't think it's even 33 millionths of the sun. The sun outputs... yottawatts, or something?

References
  1. The metadata in the Somerville College Report obituary states Liebeck's birthdate and birthplace in the title of the pdf file.
  2. Liebeck, Ann, "Pamela Liebeck (Lawrence, 1949)" (PDF), Somerville College Report 2012–13: 100
  3. "Liebeck, Pamela", Stoke Sentinel, 11 July 2012 – via funeral-notices.co.uk
  4. Home page of Martin W. Liebeck, retrieved 2020-04-11
  5. Reviews of Vectors and Matrices:
    • Birnbaum, Saul (April 1972), The Mathematics Teacher, 65 (4): 347, JSTOR 27958872CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link); reprinted in November 1972, JSTOR 27959067
    • Neill, Hugh (October 1972), The Mathematical Gazette, 56 (397): 253–254, doi:10.2307/3617019, JSTOR 3617019CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  6. Reviews of How Children Learn Mathematics:
    • British Book News: 731, 1984CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Eastwood, Margaret (March 1986), The Mathematical Gazette, 70 (451): 55–56, doi:10.2307/3615837, JSTOR 3615837CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
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