Marissa Kawehi Loving
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Marissa Kawehi Loving is an American mathematician. She became the first Native Hawaiian woman to earn a PhD in mathematics when she graduated from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2019. In addition to being Native Hawaiian, she is also black, Japanese, and Puerto Rican.[1] According to the Mathematics Genealogy Project, her dissertation was titled “Least dilatation of pure surface braids”.[2]
In 2020 Loving co-organized the first Black in Math week on Twitter. She also cofounded the website “Indigenous Mathematicians”, which launched in 2020.[3][4]
As of August 2021, Loving is a visiting assistant mathematics professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a National Science Foundation postdoctoral researcher.[3]
References[edit]
- ↑ Communications, Brown Office of University. "Horizons Seminar: Marissa Kawehi Loving". events.brown.edu.
- ↑ "Marissa Kawehi Loving - The Mathematics Genealogy Project". web.archive.org. April 18, 2022.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Modern Mathematics Confronts Its White, Patriarchal Past - Scientific American". web.archive.org. April 18, 2022.
- ↑ "Yong helps create ʻIndigenous Mathematicians' community - Ka Puna O Kaloi". web.archive.org. April 18, 2022.
External links[edit]
- Indigenous Mathematicians, a website Loving cofounded
- Marissa Kawehi Loving publications indexed by Google Scholar
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