Gail Susan Nelson (born 1959)^[1] is a mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at Carleton College.^[2]

Education and career

Nelson did her undergraduate studies at the University of North Dakota.^[2] She completed her Ph.D. in 1988 at the University of Minnesota. Her dissertation concerned partial differential equations, and was supervised by Eugene Barry Fabes; it was Bounds for the Fundamental Solutions of Degenerate Parabolic Partial Differential Equations.^[3] She joined the Carleton College faculty in the same year.^[2]

Books

Nelson is the author of two textbooks in mathematics:

• Recurrence and Topology (with John M. Alongi, Graduate Studies in Mathematics 85, American Mathematical Society, 2007), on dynamical systems.^[4]
• A User-Friendly Introduction to Lebesgue Measure and Integration (Student Mathematical Library 78, American Mathematical Society, 2015), on Lebesgue integration.^[5]

She is also the editor-in-chief of the "Problem Books" book series of the Mathematical Association of America.^[6]

References

External links

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