Christine Guenther is an American mathematician known for her research on the

differential geometry Differential geometry is a mathematical discipline that studies the geometry of smooth shapes and smooth spaces, otherwise known as smooth manifolds. It uses the techniques of differential calculus, integral calculus, linear algebra and multili ...

manifold In mathematics, a manifold is a topological space that locally resembles Euclidean space near each point. More precisely, an n-dimensional manifold, or ''n-manifold'' for short, is a topological space with the property that each point has a n ...

s, including the

Ricci flow In the mathematical fields of differential geometry and geometric analysis, the Ricci flow ( , ), sometimes also referred to as Hamilton's Ricci flow, is a certain partial differential equation for a Riemannian metric. It is often said to be analo ...

. She is a distinguished professor of mathematics at Pacific University. Guenther graduated from

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

in 1989 with a bachelor's degree in music. After earning a master's degree in mathematics in 1993 from the

University of Washington The University of Washington (UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast; it was established in Seattle a ...

, she completed her Ph.D. in 1998 at the

University of Oregon The University of Oregon (UO, U of O or Oregon) is a public research university in Eugene, Oregon. Founded in 1876, the institution is well known for its strong ties to the sports apparel and marketing firm Nike, Inc, and its co-founder, billion ...

, under the supervision of

James A. Isenberg James A. Isenberg (born 1951) is an American theoretical physicist and mathematician, professor emeritus at the University of Oregon. Personal life and education Isenberg was born in 1951. He became an Eagle Scout in 1966, and in 1969 graduat ...

. She joined the Pacific University faculty in 1988 and became a Distinguished University Professor at Pacific University in 2016. She is a co-author of the four-volume book series ''Ricci Flow: Techniques and Applications'' (American Mathematical Society, 2007, 2008, 2010, and 2015) and of ''

Extrinsic Geometric Flows ''Extrinsic Geometric Flows'' is an advanced mathematics textbook that overviews geometric flows, mathematical problems in which a curve or surface moves continuously according to some rule. It focuses on extrinsic flows, in which the rule depe ...

'' (

Graduate Studies in Mathematics Graduate Studies in Mathematics (GSM) is a series of graduate-level textbooks in mathematics published by the American Mathematical Society (AMS). The books in this series are published ihardcoverane-bookformats. List of books *1 ''The General To ...

206, 2020).

References

21st-century American mathematicians American women mathematicians Stanford University alumni University of Washington College of Arts and Sciences alumni University of Oregon alumni Pacific University faculty Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 21st-century American women {{US-mathematician-stub