DusaMcDuff 2007-06-24 16:41:06 2007-06-24 16:41:06 Biography % this is the default PlanetMath preamble. as your knowledge % of TeX increases, you will probably want to edit this, but % it should be fine as is for beginners. % almost certainly you want these \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{amsfonts} % used for TeXing text within eps files %\usepackage{psfrag} % need this for including graphics (\includegraphics) %\usepackage{graphicx} % for neatly defining theorems and propositions %\usepackage{amsthm} % making logically defined graphics %\usepackage{xypic} % there are many more packages, add them here as you need them % define commands here \PMlinkescapeword{degree} \emph{Dusa McDuff} n\`ee \emph{Margaret Dusa Waddington} (1945 - ) British mathematician, best known for her work on symplectic geometry. Born in London of a biologist and an architect, young Dusa's earliest education was at Edinburgh. After graduating from the University of Edinburgh, she went on to Cambridge, and after that taught at York and Warwick. She moved to the United States and since has taught at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where she fell in love and married fellow math professor John Milnor. McDuff has \PMlinkname{Erd\H{o}s number}{ErdHosNumber} 3: With Edwin Hewitt she co-authored a paper on compact groups in Russian for a Soviet journal, while Hewitt co-authored with Shizuo Kakutani a paper on ``A class of multiplicative linear functionals on the measure algebra of a locally compact Abelian group'' in the {\it Illinois Journal of Mathematics}. Kakutani co-authored with Erd\H{o}s a paper ``On non-denumerable graphs'' in the {\it Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society}.