Christiane Rousseau (born March 30, 1954 in

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) is a French and Canadian mathematician, a professor in the department of mathematics and statistics at the

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. She was president of the Canadian Mathematical Society from 2002 to 2004.Curriculum vitae
retrieved 2014-12-17.

Education and career

Rousseau earned her Ph.D. from the Université de Montréal in 1977, under the supervision of Dana Schlomiuk. After postdoctoral research at

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, she joined the Montréal faculty in 1979, and was promoted to full professor in 1991.

Recognition

She has received the Adrien-Pouliot Prize and the Abel-Gauthier Prize of the Mathematical Association of Québec, and the 2009 Graham Wright Award for Distinguished Service from the Canadian Mathematical Society. She also received the 2014

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of the Mathematical Association of America for her article about a discovery by

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, "How Inge Lehmann Discovered the Inner Core of the Earth". In 2012, she became a

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of the

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(AMS). In 2017 she became the inaugural recipient of the AMS'

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prize for furthering human values and the common good through mathematics. In 2018 the Canadian Mathematical Society listed her in their inaugural class of fellows.

References

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