Gail Susan Nelson (born 1959) is a mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at

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 ...

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 equation In mathematics, a partial differential equation (PDE) is an equation which imposes relations between the various partial derivatives of a Multivariable calculus, multivariable function. The function is often thought of as an "unknown" to be sol ...

s, 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 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 ...

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 In mathematics, the integral of a non-negative function of a single variable can be regarded, in the simplest case, as the area between the graph of that function and the -axis. The Lebesgue integral, named after French mathematician Henri Lebe ...

. She is also the editor-in-chief of the "Problem Books" book series 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 ...

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