Linda Preiss Rothschild (born February 28, 1945) is a

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of mathematics at the

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.Curriculum vitae
retrieved January 1, 2015. Her thesis research concerned Lie groups, but subsequently her interests broadened to include also

polynomial factorization In mathematics and computer algebra, factorization of polynomials or polynomial factorization expresses a polynomial with coefficients in a given field or in the integers as the product of irreducible factors with coefficients in the same dom ...

, partial differential equations, harmonic analysis, and the theory of several complex variables..

Education and career

Rothschild is the daughter of Philadelphia fur merchants; she was unable to attend the best high school of the city, as at the time it was restricted to boys. She graduated from the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...

in 1966. Rejected from graduate study at

Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...

because it was also male-only,. she instead earned her Ph.D. in 1970 from the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

under the supervision of

Isadore Singer Isadore Manuel Singer (May 3, 1924 – February 11, 2021) was an American mathematician. He was an Emeritus Institute Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Professor Emeritus of Mathemat ...

. She held temporary positions at MIT,

Tufts University Tufts University is a private research university on the border of Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1852 as Tufts College by Christian universalists who sought to provide a nonsectarian institution of higher learning. ...

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, the

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, and

before landing an associate professorship at the

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in 1976. She moved to San Diego in 1983, and retired in 2011. Rothschild was a Member at Large at the AMS from 1977 to 1979. She served as president of the

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from 1983 to 1985, and vice president of the

American Mathematical Society The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, ...

from 1985 to 1987. She has been co-editor-in-chief of the journal ''Mathematical Research Letters'' since 1994. Her husband, M. Salah Baouendi, was also a distinguished professor of mathematics at UC San Diego; he died in 2011.

Awards and honors

Rothschild was awarded a

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in 1976. In 1997, Rothschild gave the

Noether Lecture The Noether Lecture is a distinguished lecture series that honors women "who have made fundamental and sustained contributions to the mathematical sciences". The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) established the annual lectures in 1980 as t ...

of the Association for Women in Mathematics, on the subject "How do Real Manifolds live in Complex Space?", and she was an

invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians This is a list of International Congresses of Mathematicians Plenary and Invited Speakers. Being invited to talk at an International Congress of Mathematicians has been called "the equivalent, in this community, of an induction to a hall of fame." ...

in 2006. She was elected as a

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of the

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in 2005, and in 2012 she became one of the inaugural fellows of the

. A conference in her honor was held in 2008 at the

University of Fribourg The University of Fribourg (french: Université de Fribourg; german: Universität Freiburg) is a public university located in Fribourg, Switzerland. The roots of the university can be traced back to 1580, when the notable Jesuit Peter Canisi ...

in Switzerland. In 2017, she was selected as a fellow of the

in the inaugural class. She and her husband were jointly awarded the Stefan Bergman Prize of the

in 2003.

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