Dusa McDuff
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Dusa McDuff (born Margaret Dusa Waddington in London in 1945) is an English mathematician whose first work was in the field of von Neumann algebras (notably, she proved the existence of infinitely many type <math>II_1</math> factors). She has more recently made fundamental and wide-ranging contributions to symplectic geometry, especially in connection with Gromov's pseudoholomorphic curves. She is a professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Her husband is John Milnor, another mathematician at Stony Brook, and her father was Conrad Hal Waddington, the famous biologist; Dusa's maternal grandmother was the writer Amber Reeves.
With Dietmar Salamon, she cowrote the standard textbooks Introduction to Symplectic Topology and J-Holomorphic Curves and Symplectic Topology.
[edit] External links
- Dusa McDuff at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Profiles of Women in Mathematics: Dusa McDuff
- Dusa McDuff's official page at Stony Brook
