Tanya Khovanova
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Comment: @David Eppstein: I thought you may be able to tell if this mathematician meets WP:ACADEMIC. Thsmi002 (talk) 01:27, 8 September 2019 (UTC)- Comment: @Thsmi002: I think we're going to have to go by WP:GNG, not WP:PROF for this one. She's a lecture rather than a professor, her publications have low citation numbers even for mathematics, and her Infinite Mile Award is campus-level rather than national or internation, so I don't see her as likely to meet the WP:PROF criteria. And the IMO gold is a student competition that explicitly doesn't count towards WP:PROF. But maybe there's enough independent coverage of that (more than just the scoresheet we have now) or of her mentorship work to pass WP:GNG?
Tanya Khovanova (Russian: Татьяна Гелиевна Хованова, also spelled Tatyana Hovanova; born 25 January 1959) is a Russian-American mathematician who became the second female gold medalist at the International Mathematical Olympiads. She is currently Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Initially her research was in representation theory, integrable systems, quantum groups, and superstring theory. Currently she is interested in combinatorics and recreational mathematics.[1]
Education
While a high school student at Moscow School 444, Khovanova won the silver medal at the 1975 International Mathematical Olympiad, and a gold medal at the 1976 Olympiad. She ranked 2nd at the 1976 Olympiad, the highest achievement for female students until 1984, when Karin Groger tied for the first place.[2][3]
She graduated with honors from Moscow State University with M.S. in Math in 1981, and received her PhD, also from Moscow State, in 1988, under Israel Gelfand.[4]
Career
After emigrating from the Soviet Union in 1990, she held several postdoctoral positions at several Israeli and American universities, and in 1998 moved to industry, where she worked as a systems engineer and an applied mathematician. Subsequently she coached mathletes at the Advanced Math and Sciences Academy in Marlborough, MA.[1]
In the mid-1990s she created the popular Number Gossip website, which lists unique properties of individual numbers.[5] In 2007, she launched her Math Blog, in which she poses challenging mathematical problems and puzzles for the readers to solve in the comments.[6] She has co-authored two papers selected for Best Writing on Mathematics volumes in 2014 and 2016.[7][8]
Khovanova has served as MIT PRIMES head mentor since its inception in 2010, and is also Research Science Institute head mentor for math.[9]
An essay about her, “To Count the Natural Numbers,” by Emily Jia, won the 2016 Essay Contest of the Association for Women in Mathematics.[10]
References
- ^ a b "Tanya Khovanova | MIT Mathematics". math.mit.edu. Retrieved 2019-09-07.
- ^ "International Mathematical Olympiad". www.imo-official.org. Retrieved 2019-09-07.
- ^ Gonzalez, Robbie (2011-10-11). "How to solve "Jewish" math problems". Gizmodo. Retrieved 2019-09-08.
- ^ "Tanya Khovanova - The Mathematics Genealogy Project". genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu. Retrieved 2019-09-07.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Website explains the mystery of numbers | The Star". thestar.com. Retrieved 2019-09-07.
- ^ "The Scienceblogging Weekly (June 8th, 2012)". ca.news.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2019-09-07.
- ^ The best writing on mathematics, 2014. Pitici, Mircea, 1965-. Princeton. ISBN 9781400865307. OCLC 894169899.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ The best writing on mathematics. 2016. Pitici, Mircea, 1965-. Princeton, New Jersey. ISBN 9780691175294. OCLC 958799818.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ "Mathematical Research in High School: The PRIMES Experience" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 62: 910–918. September 2015.
- ^ "Results of 2016 Essay Contest - AWM Association for Women in Mathematics". sites.google.com. Retrieved 2019-09-07.
Category:Living people Category:1959 births Category:People from Moscow Category:Women mathematicians Category:21st-century mathematicians