Janet Lynn Beery is an American mathematician and

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who serves as a professor of mathematics and computer science at the

University of Redlands The University of Redlands is a private university headquartered in Redlands, California. The university's main, residential campus is situated on 160 acres (65 ha) near downtown Redlands. An additional eight regional locations throughout Califo ...

. She also served as the

editor-in-chief An editor-in-chief (EIC), also known as lead editor or chief editor, is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies. The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...

of mathematics history journal ''Convergence'' from 2009 to 2019, and has authored a book on the mathematics of

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Education and career

Beery graduated from the

University of Puget Sound The University of Puget Sound (UPS or Puget Sound) is a private university in Tacoma, Washington. The university draws approximately 2,600 students from 44 states and 16 countries. It offers 1,200 courses each year in more than 50 traditional an ...

in 1983, majoring in mathematics and English literature. She went to

Dartmouth College Dartmouth College (; ) is a private research university in Hanover, New Hampshire. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, it is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Although founded to educate Native A ...

for her graduate education in mathematics, earning a master's degree there in 1985 and completing her Ph.D. in 1989. Her dissertation, ''Transitive Groups of Prime Degree'', was in

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, supervised by Thomas F. Bickel. While at Dartmouth, she also worked as an instructor at the University of Puget Sound. She has been on the University of Redlands faculty since 1989.

Contributions

With

Jackie Stedall Jacqueline Anne "Jackie" Stedall (4 August 1950 – 27 September 2014) was a British mathematics historian. She wrote nine books, and appeared on radio on BBC Radio 4's '' In Our Time'' programme. Early life Stedall was born in Romford, Esse ...

, Beery is the editor of '' Thomas Harriot’s Doctrine of Triangular Numbers: the 'Magisteria Magna''' (European Mathematical Society, 2009). She is also an editor of ''Women in Mathematics – Celebrating the Centennial of the Mathematical Association of America'' (Springer, 2017), with Sarah J. Greenwald,

Jacqueline Jensen-Vallin Jacqueline Ann Jensen-Vallin is an American mathematician. She is an associate professor of mathematics at Lamar University, the editor-in-chief of '' MAA FOCUS'', the newsletter of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA), and the governor of ...

, and

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. She has been editor-in-chief of ''Convergence'', a journal of the

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, since 2009. She has also been active with the

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in developing examination questions and instructional material for the

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exam, and has been clerk of the

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since 2014.

Recognition

In 2010 the

gave Beery their Meritorious Service Award.

References

External links

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