Stephanie Brewster Brewer Taylor Alexander (September 1, 1941 – November 20, 2023) [1] was an American mathematician, a professor emerita of mathematics at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. [2] Her research concerned differential geometry and metric spaces. [3]
Alexander earned her Ph.D. from UIUC in 1967, under the supervision of Richard L. Bishop, with a thesis entitled Reducibility of Euclidean Immersions of Low Codimensions. [4] After joining the UIUC faculty as a half-time instructor, she became a regular faculty member in 1972. [3] She retired in 2009 [5] and died in 2023. [6]
Stephanie Brewster Brewer Taylor Alexander (September 1, 1941 – November 20, 2023) [1] was an American mathematician, a professor emerita of mathematics at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. [2] Her research concerned differential geometry and metric spaces. [3]
Alexander earned her Ph.D. from UIUC in 1967, under the supervision of Richard L. Bishop, with a thesis entitled Reducibility of Euclidean Immersions of Low Codimensions. [4] After joining the UIUC faculty as a half-time instructor, she became a regular faculty member in 1972. [3] She retired in 2009 [5] and died in 2023. [6]