Joan Hutchinson

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Joan Hutchinson (born 1945) is an American woman mathematician and professor.

Education

She studied at Smith College in Northhampton, Massachusetts, graduating in 1967. After graduating from smith college she worked as a computer programmer at Harvard University then studied at the University of Warwick in Coventry England. After two years she returned to the United States and did graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania earning a PhD in mathematics in 1973.

Career

She was a John Wesley Young research instructor at Dartmouth College 1973-1975. She has taught at Tufts University, Carleton College and University of Colorado. She and her husband and fellow mathematician Stan Wagon have taught at Smith College 1976-1990 and then Macalester College.

Her research has focused on graph theory. She has been researching how the four color problem can be generalized to surfaces other than the plane.

Awards

She has received the Carl B. Allendoerfer Award of the Mathematical Association of America

References

Notable Women in Mathematics, a Biographical Dictionary, edited by Charlene Morrow and Teri Perl, Greenwood Press, 1998. pp 90–93

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