Stephanie Singer

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Stephanie Frank Singer is an American mathematician and local politician in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Singer was born in 1964 to Maxine and Daniel Singer. She earned a B.A. in mathematics from Yale University and a Ph.D in mathematics from the Courant Institute of New York University in 1991, under the supervision of Nicholas Ercolani.[1] She then taught mathematics at Haverford College from 1991 to 2002, first as an assistant professor and after 1998 as an associate professor. In a 2017 article in The Chronicle of Higher Education she discusses her experience as a victim of sexual harassment at that institution.[2]

Singer was elected Democratic Party committeeperson for Philadelphia's 8th Ward in 2008. In 2011, she was elected as a city commissioner, defeating 36-year incumbent Marge Tartaglione. Singer served one term as city commissioner from 2012 to 2015.[3]

She is the author of two books Linearity, Symmetry, and Prediction in the Hydrogen Atom (Springer, Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics 115, 2005) [4] and Symmetry in Mechanics: A Gentle, Modern Introduction (Birkhauser Boston, 2001).

References

  1. ^ Stephanie Singer at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ Singer, S. (2017). I Spoke Up Against My Harasser — and Paid a Steep Price. The Chronicle of Higher Education.
  3. ^ Biography of Commissioner Stephanie Singer, Office of the Philadelphia City Commissioners, archived from the original on 2015-04-15, retrieved 2015-12-10 {{citation}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help).
  4. ^ Fulling, Stephen A. (August–September 2007), "Review of Linearity, Symmetry, and Prediction in the Hydrogen Atom", American Mathematical Monthly, 114 (7): 650–653, JSTOR 27642297