Carolyn S. Gordon

Quick Facts

Full Name	Carolyn S. Gordon
Occupation	Mathematician
Date Of Birth	Dec 26, 1950(1950-12-26)
Age	74
Birthplace	Charleston
Country	United States
Birth City	West Virginia
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Carolyn S. Gordon Biography

Carolyn S. Gordon is one of the most popular and richest Mathematician who was born on December 26, 1950 in Charleston, West Virginia, United States. Carolyn S. Gordon, born 1950, is a mathematician who is also the Benjamin Cheney Professor in Mathematics at Dartmouth College. Her most famous accomplishment is her negative answer to the question, “Can you hear the drum shape?” She has worked with Scott A. Wolpert and David Webb. She is a Chauvenet Prize Winner and a 2010 Noether Lecturer.

For their 1996 American Scientist paper “You can’t see the shape of a drummer”, Gordon and Webb received the Mathematical Association of America Chauvenet prize in 2001. She was awarded the AMS Centennial Fellowship in 1990 by the American Mathematical Society to recognize her outstanding early career research. Gordon gave an AMS-MAA joint invitational address in 1999. She was named a Noether Lecturer in 2010. She was elected a fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2012 and the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2012. She was elected to the inaugural class of the Association for Women in Mathematics in 2017. Gordon was featured in the Women’s History Month tribute, March 2018, AMS Notices.

Gordon is the author or coauthor of over 30 articles about isospectral geometries, including research on closed Riemannian isospectral manifolds that share a common Riemannian cover. These isospectral Riemannian Manifolds share the same local geometry, but have a different topology. Toshikazu Sunada discovered the “Sunada Method” to find them. She discovered isospectral Riemannian manifolds that were not local isometric in 1993 and has been working with coauthors ever since to create a variety of such examples.

Carolyn S. Gordon Net Worth

Carolyn S. Gordon is one of the richest Mathematician from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Carolyn S. Gordon 's net worth $3-5 Million. * (Last Update: February 3, 2024)

Gordon is best known for her work on isospectral geometry, which focuses on the measurement of drum shape. Mark Kac, a 1966 student of Gordon’s, asked if the shape of a drum could possibly be determined by its sound. (Whether a Riemannian manifold can be determined by its spectrum of the Laplace-Beltrami operators determines the spectrum of the operator’s Laplace-Beltrami spectrum). John Milnor noticed that Witt’s theorem implied that there could be a pair 16-dimensional tori with the same spectrum, but different shapes. The problem in two dimensions was still open to debate until 1992 when Gordon and coauthors Webb, Wolpert, created a pair in the Euclidean space that had different shapes, but the same eigenvalues (see figure right). Further work was done by Gordon and Webb, who created convex isospectral domains within the hyperbolic and Euclidean spaces.

Gordon earned her Bachelor of Science degree at Purdue University. In 1979, she received her Doctor of Philosophy degree in mathematics from Washington University. Edward Nathan Wilson was her doctoral advisor and she wrote her thesis on isometry groups for homogeneous manifolds. She was a Technion Israel Institute of Technology postdoctoral fellow and also held positions at Lehigh University, Washington University, and Lehigh University.

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Interesting Facts about Carolyn S. Gordon

1. Carolyn S. Gordon is an American mathematician.
2. She specializes in geometry and topology.
3. Gordon earned her PhD from Stanford University.
4. She has been a professor at Dartmouth College since 1990.
5. Gordon is known for her work on the Yamabe problem.
6. She was awarded the Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics in 2009.
7. Gordon has also received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Science Foundation.
8. Her research interests include geometric analysis, Riemannian geometry, and mathematical physics.
9. Gordon has published numerous papers in top mathematics journals.
10. She is a member of the American Mathematical Society and the Association for Women in Mathematics.