Bodil Branner

Bodil Branner (born 5 February 1943 in Aarhus) is a retired Danish mathematician, one of the founders of European Women in Mathematics and a former chair of the Danish Mathematical Society. Her research concerned holomorphic dynamics and the history of mathematics.[1]

Branner studied mathematics and physics at Aarhus University, where mathematician Svend Bundgaard was one of her mentors, and in 1967 earned a master's degree (the highest degree then available) under the supervision of Leif Kristensen. She had intended to travel to the U.S. for a doctorate, but her husband, a chemist, took an industry job in Copenhagen. Branner could not get a job as a high school teacher because she did not have a teaching qualification, but Bundgaard found her a position as a faculty assistant for Bent Fabricius-Bjerre at the Technical University of Denmark. Despite this not beginning as an actual faculty position, she eventually earned tenure there in the 1970s.[1] She was the first woman to chair the Danish Mathematical Society, from 1998 to 2002.[2] She retired in 2008.[1]

A symposium in honor of Branner's 60th birthday was held in Holbæk in 2003, and published as a festschrift in 2006.[3] In 2012, she became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.[4]

Selected publications

References

  1. 1 2 3 Hjorth, Poul G. (June 2012), "Interview with Bodil Branner", Newsletter of the European Mathematical Society 84
  2. Munkholm, Hans Jørgen (February 5, 2002), Bodil Branner og Dansk Matematisk Forening (in Danish), retrieved 2015-02-16.
  3. Hjorth, Poul G.; Petersen, Carsten Lunde (2006), Dynamics on the Riemann sphere: A Bodil Branner Festschrift, Including papers from the Symposium on Holomorphic Dynamics held in Holbæk, June 2003, Zürich: European Mathematical Society (EMS), doi:10.4171/011, ISBN 3-03719-011-6, MR 2348951.
  4. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2015-02-16.

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