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Gail S. Nelson
Gail Susan Nelson (born 1959) is a mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at Carleton College. Education and career Nelson did her undergraduate studies at the University of North Dakota. She completed her Ph.D. in 1988 at the University of Minnesota. Her dissertation concerned partial differential equations, and was supervised by Eugene Barry Fabes; it was ''Bounds for the Fundamental Solutions of Degenerate Parabolic Partial Differential Equations''. She joined the Carleton College faculty in the same year. Books Nelson is the author of two textbooks in mathematics: *''Recurrence and Topology'' (with John M. Alongi, Graduate Studies in Mathematics 85, American Mathematical Society, 2007), on dynamical systems. *''A User-Friendly Introduction to Lebesgue Measure and Integration'' (Student Mathematical Library 78, American Mathematical Society, 2015), on Lebesgue integration. She is also the editor-in-chief of the "Problem Books" book series of the Mathematical Assoc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carleton College
Carleton College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Northfield, Minnesota. Founded in 1866, it had 2,105 undergraduate students and 269 faculty members in fall 2016. The 200-acre main campus is between Northfield and the 800-acre Cowling Arboretum, which became part of the campus in the 1920s. Admissions is highly selective with an acceptance rate of 16.5% in 2022, and Carleton is annually ranked near the top in most rankings of liberal arts schools. Carleton is particularly renowned for its undergraduate teaching, having been ranked #1 in Undergraduate Teaching by U.S. News & World Report for over a decade. Students can choose courses from 33 major programs and 31 minor programs and have the option to design their own major. Carleton's varsity sports compete at the NCAA Division III level in the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. Carleton is also known for its Division 1 Ultimate Frisbee teams, which have won multiple national championships. Among liber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
