Janet Beery
Janet Lynn Beery is an American mathematician and historian of mathematics who serves as a professor of mathematics and computer science at the University of Redlands.[1] She also served as the editor-in-chief of mathematics history journal Convergence from 2009 to 2019,[2] and has authored a book on the mathematics of Thomas Harriot.
Education and career
[edit]Beery graduated from the University of Puget Sound in 1983, majoring in mathematics and English literature. She went to Dartmouth College for her graduate education in mathematics, earning a master's degree there in 1985 and completing her Ph.D. in 1989.[3] Her dissertation, Transitive Groups of Prime Degree, was in group theory, supervised by Thomas F. Bickel.[4]
While at Dartmouth, she also worked as an instructor at the University of Puget Sound. She has been on the University of Redlands faculty since 1989.[3]
Contributions
[edit]With Jackie Stedall, Beery is the editor of Thomas Harriot’s Doctrine of Triangular Numbers: the 'Magisteria Magna' (European Mathematical Society, 2009).[5] She is also an editor of Women in Mathematics – Celebrating the Centennial of the Mathematical Association of America (Springer, 2017), with Sarah J. Greenwald, Jacqueline Jensen-Vallin, and Maura Mast.
She has been editor-in-chief of Convergence, a journal of the Mathematical Association of America, since 2009.[3] She has also been active with the College Board in developing examination questions and instructional material for the AP Calculus exam,[3] and has been clerk of the Association for Women in Mathematics since 2014.[6]
Recognition
[edit]In 2010 the Mathematical Association of America gave Beery their Meritorious Service Award.[7]
References
[edit]- ↑ Janet Beery, University of Redlands, retrieved 2025-11-27
- ↑ About Convergence, Mathematical Association of America, archived from the original on 2019-01-19, retrieved 2018-11-18
- 1 2 3 4 Curriculum vitae, retrieved 2025-11-27
- ↑ Janet Beery at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Reviews of Thomas Harriot’s Doctrine of Triangular Numbers:
- Gouvêa, Fernando Q. (March 2009), "Review", MAA Reviews, archived from the original on 2018-11-19, retrieved 2018-11-19
- Schemmel, Matthias (September 2010), "Before calculus", Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, 64 (3): 303–304, doi:10.1098/rsnr.2010.0016, JSTOR 20753908
- Shea, William R. (2010), Mathematical Reviews, MR 2516550
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - "Review", European Mathematical Society Reviews, May 2011, archived from the original on 2018-11-19, retrieved 2018-11-19
- ↑ AWM Executive Committee, Association for Women in Mathematics, retrieved 2018-11-19. See also AWM Newsletter, March–April 2014.
- ↑ 2010 Prizes and Awards, American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2018-11-18
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