Melanie Wood
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Melanie Matchett Wood, born 1981 in Indianapolis, Indiana, is a graduate student mathematician currently studying at Princeton University who has set numerous firsts as a woman in the area of mathematics.
While a high school student at Park Tudor School in Indianapolis, Melanie became the first, and until 2004, the only female American to make the U.S. International Math Olympiad Team, receiving silver medals in the 1998 and 1999 International Mathematical Olympiad.
Melanie attended Duke University where she won a Gates Cambridge Scholarship, Fulbright fellowship, and a National Science Foundation graduate fellowship in 2003, in addition to becoming the first American woman and second woman overall to be named a Putnam Fellow. During the 2003-2004 year she studied at Cambridge University.
In 2004, she won the Morgan Prize for work in two topics: Belyi-extending maps and P-orderings, the first woman to win this award. Her paper on the second topic was published in the Journal of Number Theory.
She was also named the Deputy Leader of the U.S. team that finished second overall at the 2005 International Mathematical Olympiad.
[edit] References
- Wood, Melanie (2003). "P-orderings: a metric viewpoint and the non-existence of simultaneous orderings". Journal of Number Theory 99 (1): 36–56. doi:. MR1957243.
[edit] External links
- A Conversation with Melanie Wood (Math Horizons magazine)
- The Girl Who Loved Math (Discover magazine)
- Melanie Wood: The Making of a Mathematician (Duke University profile)
- Melanie Wood (Princeton University homepage)
