Kirsi Peltonen is a Finnish mathematician whose research interests include differential geometry and the connections between

mathematics and art Mathematics and art are related in a variety of ways. Mathematics has itself been described as an art mathematical beauty, motivated by beauty. Mathematics can be discerned in arts such as Music and mathematics, music, dance, painting, Mathema ...

. She is a Senior University Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics and Systems Analysis at

Aalto University Aalto University ( fi, Aalto-yliopisto; sv, Aalto-universitetet) is a public research university located in Espoo, Finland. It was established in 2010 as a merger of three major Finnish universities: the Helsinki University of Technology, the ...

, and a docent at the

University of Helsinki The University of Helsinki ( fi, Helsingin yliopisto, sv, Helsingfors universitet, abbreviated UH) is a public research university located in Helsinki, Finland since 1829, but founded in the city of Turku (in Swedish ''Åbo'') in 1640 as the ...

. Her work has included the design of an innovative interdisciplinary course on mathematics, art, and architecture, the creation of a major exhibit at the Heureka science center near Helsinki, and presentations on mathematics at Finnish schools. Peltonen earned her Ph.D. in 1992, at the University of Helsinki. Her dissertation, ''On the Existence of Quasiregular Mappings'', was supervised by Seppo Rickman. In 2015, Peltonen was the inaugural lecturer for a series of lectures titled Women in Mathematics in Finland and sponsored by European Women in Mathematics. In 2018 the Finnish Mathematics Society awarded their annual mathematics prize to Peltonen, for her work on mathematics and art.

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