Английская Википедия:Carol Schumacher

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:About Шаблон:Use mdy dates Шаблон:Use list-defined references Carol Smith Schumacher (born 1960)Шаблон:R is a Bolivian-born American mathematician specializing in real analysis, a mathematics educator, and a textbook author. She is a professor of mathematics at Kenyon College, and vice president of the Mathematical Association of America.Шаблон:R

Early life and education

Schumacher was born in La Paz, BoliviaШаблон:R as the daughter of missionaries, and grew up in Bolivia speaking both English and Spanish.Шаблон:R She majored in mathematics at Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas, and graduated with honors in 1982.Шаблон:R It was in freshman calculus at Hendrix that she met her husband, physicist and quantum information theorist Benjamin Schumacher.Шаблон:R

She went to the University of Texas at Austin for graduate study, and completed her Ph.D. in 1989 with a dissertation on the theory of Banach spaces, jointly supervised by Edward Odell and Haskell Rosenthal.Шаблон:R

Career and contributions

Schumacher joined Kenyon College as Dana Assistant Professor in 1988, has been full professor there since 2002,Шаблон:R and has been department chair for several terms. She was elected vice president of the Mathematical Association of America for the 2018–2020 term.Шаблон:R

Schumacher is the author of two inquiry-based learning textbooks:Шаблон:R Chapter Zero: Fundamental Notions of Abstract Mathematics, on the transition to proofs (Addison-Wesley, 1996; 2nd edition, 2001)Шаблон:R and Closer and Closer: Introducing Real Analysis, on real analysis (Jones and Bartlett, 2008).Шаблон:R

Recognition

Kenyon College gave Schumacher their Senior Trustee Teaching Excellence Award in 2005.Шаблон:R She was the 2017 winner of the Distinguished Teaching Award of the Ohio Section of the Mathematical Association of America.Шаблон:R

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