Joan Hutchinson

Joan Prince Hutchinson (born 1945) is an American mathematician and retired professor.[1][2]

Education

Hutchinson was born in Philadelphia; her father was a college professor, and her mother a high school mathematics teacher.[1] She studied at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, graduating in 1967. After graduating from Smith she worked as a computer programmer at Harvard University then studied at the University of Warwick in Coventry England.[1] 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 under the supervision of Herbert Wilf.[3]

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.[2]

Her research has focused on graph theory. One of her most highly cited publications concerns extensions of the planar separator theorem to graphs of higher genus.[pub 1] With Michael O. Albertson, a former colleague at Smith, she is the author of a textbook on discrete mathematics.[1][4][pub 2]

Awards

She has received the Carl B. Allendoerfer Award of the Mathematical Association of America for expository writing in Mathematics Magazine, in 1994, for a paper on generalizations of the four color theorem.[1][5][pub 3]

Selected publications

  1. ↑ Gilbert, John R.; Hutchinson, Joan P.; Tarjan, Robert Endre (1984), "A separator theorem for graphs of bounded genus", Journal of Algorithms 5 (3): 391–407, doi:10.1016/0196-6774(84)90019-1, MR 756165
  2. ↑ Albertson, Michael O.; Hutchinson, Joan P. (1988), Discrete Mathematics with Algorithms, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, ISBN 0-471-84902-2
  3. ↑ Hutchinson, Joan P. (1993), "Coloring ordinary maps, maps of empires and maps of the moon", Mathematics Magazine 66 (4): 211–226, doi:10.2307/2690733, MR 1240669.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Notable Women in Mathematics, a Biographical Dictionary, edited by Charlene Morrow and Teri Perl, Greenwood Press, 1998. pp 90–93.
  2. 1 2 Curriculum vitae, retrieved 2014-06-17.
  3. ↑ Joan Prince Hutchinson at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ↑ Review of Discrete Mathematics with Algorithms by David A. Klarner (1989), MR 0950858
  5. ↑ Allendoerfer Award, MAA, retrieved 2014-06-16.
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