Asuman Güven Aksoy is a Turkish-American mathematician whose research concerns topics in

functional analysis Functional analysis is a branch of mathematical analysis, the core of which is formed by the study of vector spaces endowed with some kind of limit-related structure (e.g. Inner product space#Definition, inner product, Norm (mathematics)#Defini ...

, metric geometry, and operator theory including

Banach space In mathematics, more specifically in functional analysis, a Banach space (pronounced ) is a complete normed vector space. Thus, a Banach space is a vector space with a metric that allows the computation of vector length and distance between vector ...

s, measures of non-compactness, fixed points,

Birnbaum–Orlicz space In mathematical analysis, and especially in real, harmonic analysis and functional analysis, an Orlicz space is a type of function space which generalizes the ''L'p'' spaces. Like the ''L'p'' spaces, they are Banach spaces. The spaces are ...

s, real trees, injective metric spaces, and tight spans. She works at

Claremont McKenna College Claremont McKenna College (CMC) is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Claremont, California. It has a curricular emphasis on government, economics, public affairs, finance, and internat ...

, where she is Crown Professor of Mathematics and George R. Roberts Fellow.

Education

Aksoy studied mathematics and physics at

Ankara University Ankara University ( tr, Ankara Üniversitesi) is a public university in Ankara, the capital city of Turkey. It was the first higher education institution founded in Turkey after the formation of the republic in 1923. The university has 40 vocat ...

, graduating with a bachelor's degree in 1976. She earned a master's degree in mathematics at

Middle East Technical University Middle East Technical University (commonly referred to as METU; in Turkish language, Turkish, ''Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi'', ODTÜ) is a public university, public Institute of technology, technical university located in Ankara, Turkey. The ...

in 1978, with a thesis ''Subspaces of Nuclear Fréchet Spaces'' supervised by

Tosun Terzioğlu Tosun Terzioğlu (13 March 1942 − 23 February 2016) was a Turkish mathematician and academic administrator. Terzioğlu was born in İstanbul, Turkey. He graduated from Robert College in 1961. He studied mathematics at Newcastle University, UK an ...

. She moved to the United States in 1978 for additional graduate study at the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

, and eventually became a US citizen. She completed her doctorate at the University of Michigan in 1984. Her dissertation, ''Approximation Schemes, Related

s

-Numbers, and Applications'', was supervised by Melapalayam S. Ramanujan.

Career

After completing her doctorate, Aksoy joined the faculty of

Oakland University Oakland University is a public research university in Auburn Hills and Rochester Hills, Michigan. Founded in 1957 through a donation of Matilda Dodge Wilson, it was initially known as Michigan State University-Oakland, operating under the Mi ...

in 1984, and was tenured there in 1987. She moved to Claremont McKenna in 1990, and chaired the mathematics department there from 1997 to 2000 and again from 2007 to 2009. She was given the Crown Professorship and Roberts Fellowship in 2009.

Books

With Mohamed Amine Khamsi, Aksoy is the author of two books: * ''Nonstandard Methods in Fixed Point Theory'' (Universitext, Springer, 1990) * ''A Problem Book in Real Analysis'' (Springer, 2009)

Recognition

In 2006 the Southern California–Nevada Section of the

Mathematical Association of America The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) is a professional society that focuses on mathematics accessible at the undergraduate level. Members include university, college, and high school teachers; graduate and undergraduate students; pure a ...

gave Aksoy their annual Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics.

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