Jane Cronin Scanlon
Jane Cronin Scanlon | |
|---|---|
| Born | July 17, 1922 |
| Died | June 19, 2018 (aged 95) |
| Alma mater | University of Michigan |
| Spouse | Joseph Scanlon |
| Children | 4 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Rutgers University |
| Thesis | (1949) |
| Doctoral advisors | Erich Rothe |
Jane Smiley Cronin Scanlon (July 17, 1922 – June 19, 2018) was an American mathematician and an emeritus professor of mathematics at Rutgers University. Her research concerned partial differential equations and mathematical biology.[1][2]
Education and career
[edit | edit source]Scanlon earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Wayne University (now Wayne State University).[3] She completed her Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Michigan in 1949, under the supervision of Erich Rothe. Her dissertation was Branch Points of Solutions of Equations in Banach Space.[1][2][4]
After working for the United States Air Force and the American Optical Company, she returned to academia as a lecturer at Wheaton College (Massachusetts) and then Stonehill College. She moved to the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1957, and to Rutgers in 1965. In 1974 Scanlon was elected as an AMS Member at Large and held the position until 1976.[5] She retired in 1991.[1][2][6] During her twenty-six years at Rutgers, she supervised seven doctoral students.[7]
She died in June 2018 at the age of 95.[3]
Recognition
[edit | edit source]Scanlon was a Noether Lecturer in 1985,[1] and Pi Mu Epsilon J. Sutherland Frame Lecturer in 1989.[8] Her talks concerned "entrainment of frequency" and the application of this principle to mathematical models of the Purkinje fibers in the heart.[1][8] In 2012, she became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.[9]
Personal life
[edit | edit source]She married the physicist Joseph Scanlon in 1953. The two divorced in 1979.[7] Upon her death, she was survived by four children and seven grandchildren.[3]
Selected publications
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Books
[edit | edit source]- Advanced Calculus, Boston, Heath 1967
- Differential equations: Introduction and Qualitative Theory, Dekker 1980, 2nd edition 1994, 3rd edition CRC/Chapman and Hall 2008[10]
- Fixed points and topological degrees in nonlinear analysis, American Mathematical Society 1964; 1995 pbk edition of 1972 reprint with corrections
- Mathematical aspects of the Hodgkin-Huxley neural theory, Cambridge University Press 1987[11]
- Mathematics of Cell Electrophysiology, Dekker 1981
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References
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- ^ a b c Obituary for Dr. Jane Cronin Scanlon
- ^ Jane Smiley Cronin Scanlon at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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- ^ a b J. Sutherland Frame Lectures, Pi Mu Epsilon
- ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2014-12-25.
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External links
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- 1922 births
- 2018 deaths
- 20th-century American mathematicians
- Wayne State University alumni
- University of Michigan alumni
- Wheaton College (Massachusetts) faculty
- Rutgers University faculty
- Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
- 20th-century American women mathematicians
- United States Air Force civilians
- 21st-century American women
- Educators from Manhattan