Dorothy Wallace

Dorothy Irene Wallace Andreoli is an American number theorist, mathematical biologist, and mathematics educator. She is a professor of mathematics at Dartmouth College.[1]

Education

Wallace is a graduate of Yale University.[1] She completed her Ph.D. in 1982 at the University of California, San Diego. Her dissertation, Selberg's Trace Formula and Units in Higher Degree Number Fields, concerned number theory and was supervised by Audrey Terras.[2]

Contributions

Wallace is the author or co-author of books including:

  • Applications of Calculus to Biology and Medicine: Case Studies from Lake Victoria (with Nathan Ryan, World Scientific, 2017)[3]
  • The Bell That Rings Light: A Primer in Quantum Mechanics and Chemical Bonding (with Joseph BelBruno, World Scientific, 2006)

With art curator Kathy Hart, Wallace co-curated the exhibit "Visual Proof: the Experience of Mathematics in Art" at Dartmouth's Hood Museum of Art in 1999.[4] With mathematics colleague Marcia Groszek and performance artist Josh Kornbluth, Wallace has also helped write and produce a sequence of educational videos about mathematics.[5]

Recognition

Wallace was named New Hampshire CASE Professor of the Year in 2000. In 2019 the Dartmouth Alumni Association gave Wallace their Rassias Award for educational outreach to alumni, for her 15 years of work giving mathematics lectures on Dartmouth alumni travel excursions.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b "Dorothy I. Wallace", Faculty directory, Dartmouth College, retrieved 2019-08-18
  2. ^ Dorothy Wallace at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ Reviews of Applications of Calculus to Biology and Medicine:
  4. ^ Kelley, Gail (June 11, 1999), "Show brings attention to US math problem", Boston Globe, retrieved 2019-08-18 – via Dartmouth Mathematics Department; "Infinity in the Mind, Infinity in the Heart", The Chronicle Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 26, 1999
  5. ^ Thrall, Erica (September 23, 1997), "Videos highlight math series", The Dartmouth, retrieved 2019-08-18
  6. ^ McDonough, Molly (June 25, 2019), ""Math is Everywhere": Professor Dorothy Wallace Awarded for Work with Alumni", Dartmouth Alumni News, retrieved 2019-08-18