Stephanie B. Alexander

Stephanie Brewster Brewer Taylor Alexander is an American mathematician, a professor emerita of mathematics at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.[1] Her research concerns 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]

Books
  • With Vitali Kapovitch and Anton Petrunin, Alexander is the author of 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."[5]

References
  1. Emeritus faculty, UIUC Mathematics, retrieved 2014-06-16.
  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. Mathematics Calendar 2012 (PDF), UIUC Mathematics Department, p. October
  5. 2014 Class of the Fellows of the AMS, retrieved 2014-06-16.
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