Sylvia Chin-Pi Lu

Sylvia Chin-Pi Lu
Born1928 (1928)
Died2014 (aged 85–86)
Alma materPennsylvania State University (PhD)
Scientific career
FieldsCommutative algebra
InstitutionsUniversity of Colorado Denver
Doctoral advisorRaymond Ayoub

Sylvia Chin-Pi Lu (1928–2014) was a Taiwanese-American mathematician specializing in commutative algebra who was an invited speaker at the 1990 International Congress of Mathematicians in Kyoto.[1] Less than 5% of ICM speakers in algebra and number theory have been women, placing Lu in a rarefied group in this "hall of fame for mathematics".[2] Lu's most highly cited papers are on the properties of prime submodules.[3]

Education

Lu received her dissertation from The Pennsylvania State University in 1963, under the direction of Raymond Ayoub.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Sylvia Chin-Pi Lu (1928-2014)". American Mathematical Society. Retrieved June 28, 2019.
  2. ^ Mihaljević, Helena; Roy, Marie-Françoise (2019). "A data analysis of women's trails among ICM speakers". arXiv:1903.02543 [math.HO].
  3. ^ "Lu, Chin-Pi". MathSciNet: Mathematical Reviews. American Mathematical Society. Retrieved June 28, 2019.
  4. ^ Lu, Chin-Pi (1963). The Ring of Formal Power Series in a Countably Infinite Number of Indeterminates (dissertation). The Pennsylvania State University.