Bodil Branner (born 5 February 1943, in

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) is a retired Danish mathematician, one of the founders of

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and a former chair of the Danish Mathematical Society. Her research concerned

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and the

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Education and career

Branner studied mathematics and physics at

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, where mathematician Svend Bundgaard was one of her mentors, and in 1967 earned a master's degree (the highest degree then available) under the supervision of Leif Kristensen. She had intended to travel to the U.S. for a doctorate, but her husband, a chemist, took an industry job in Copenhagen. Branner could not get a job as a high school teacher because she did not have a teaching qualification, but Bundgaard found her a position as a faculty assistant for Bent Fabricius-Bjerre at the

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. Despite this not beginning as an actual faculty position, she eventually earned tenure there in the 1970s. She was the first woman to chair the Danish Mathematical Society, from 1998 to 2002. She retired in 2008.

Recognition

A symposium in honor of Branner's 60th birthday was held in

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in 2006. In 2012, she became one of the inaugural

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s of the American Mathematical Society.List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
retrieved 2015-02-16.

Selected publications

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References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Branner, Bodil Living people 20th-century Danish mathematicians 21st-century Danish mathematicians Aarhus University alumni Technical University of Denmark faculty Fellows of the American Mathematical Society 1943 births People from Aarhus 20th-century women mathematicians 21st-century women mathematicians