Judith Q. Longyear
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Judith Q. Longyear | |
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Born | 20 September 1938 |
Died | 13 December 1995 | (aged 57)
Education | Ph.D 1972 Mathematics |
Alma mater | Penn State University |
Occupation | Professor |
Known for | Graph Theory / Combinatorics |
Judith Querida Longyear (20 September 1938–13 December 1995[1]) was an American mathematician and professor whose research interests included graph theory and combinatorics. Longyear earned her Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University 1972, under the supervision of Sarvadaman Chowla, with a thesis entitled Tactical Configurations.[2][3] She taught mathematics at several universities including California Institute of Technology,[4] Dartmouth College[5] and Wayne State University.[6] She worked on nested block designs[4][7] and Hadamard matrices.[8]
References
- ^ RootsWeb: Database Index
- ^ Judith Q. Longyear at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ PSU Mathematics Alumni, retrieved 2014-06-25.
- ^ a b A survey of nested designs
- ^ Tactical configurations: An introduction - Springer
- ^ Graphs and Permutations - LONGYEAR - 2006 - Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences - Wiley Online Library
- ^ Nested group divisible designs and small nested designs
- ^ Classification of 3-(24, 12, 5) designs and 24-dimensional Hadamard matrices by Ito, Leon and Longyear