Elizabeth Spencer Allman (born 1965)[1] is an American mathematician. She is a professor of mathematics in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Alaska Fairbanks; her research interests range from abstract algebra and algebraic statistics to biomathematics and phylogeny.[2]

Education

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Allman earned her Ph.D. in 1995 from the University of California, Los Angeles under the supervision of Murray M. Schacher. Her dissertation, in abstract algebra, was Polynomials Without Roots in Division Algebras.[3]

Contributions

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With her Fairbanks colleague John A. Rhodes, Allman is the author of a book on mathematical biology and mathematical modeling, Mathematical Models in Biology: An Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 2004).[4]

Recognition

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In 2012, Allman became a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[5]

References

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  1. ^ Birth year from Library of Congress catalog entry, retrieved 2018-12-01.
  2. ^ "Elizabeth S. Allman", Directory, University of Alaska Fairbanks College of Natural Science and Mathematics, retrieved 2018-12-18
  3. ^ Elizabeth Spencer Allman at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
  4. ^ Reviews of Mathematical Models in Biology:
  5. ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
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