Rebecca Waldecker
Rebecca Anne Hedwig Waldecker (born 1979) is a German mathematician specializing in group theory. She is professor for algebra at Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg.[1]
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Education and career
Waldecker is originally from Aachen.[1] She earned her doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) at the University of Kiel in 2007, under the supervision of Helmut Bender,[2] and in 2014 completed her habilitation at Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg.[1]
After postdoctoral research as a Leverhulme Fellow at the University of Birmingham, Waldecker joined Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg as a junior professor in 2009. She became professor for algebra in 2015.[1]
Books
Waldecker is the author of the book Isolated Involutions in Finite Groups (Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, 2013), developed from her doctoral dissertation.[3]
With Lasse Rempe-Gillen, she is the coauthor of Primzahltests für Einsteiger: Zahlentheorie, Algorithmik, Kryptographie (Vieweg+Teubner, 2009; 2nd ed., Springer, 2016), a book on primality tests that was translated into English as Primality Testing for Beginners (Student Mathematical Library 70, American Mathematical Society, 2014).[4]
She became a coauthor to the 2012 textbook Elementare Algebra und Zahlentheorie of Gernot Stroth, in its second edition (Mathematik Kompakt, Springer, 2019).
References
- Lebenslauf, retrieved 2020-08-16
- Rebecca Waldecker at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Reviews of Isolated Involutions in Finite Groups:
- George Glauberman, MR3136255
- Anatoli Kondrat’ev, Zbl 1298.20018
- Reviews of Primzahltests für Einsteiger and Primality Testing for Beginners:
- Samuel S. Wagstaff Jr., MR3154407
- Wilfried Meidl, Zbl 1195.11003
- Chapman, Robin (July 2014), "Review" (PDF), London Mathematical Society Newsletter, no. 438, p. 49
- Green, Frederic (June 2016), ACM SIGACT News, 47 (2): 6–9, doi:10.1145/2951860.2951863, S2CID 26146309
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: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Ehme, Jeffrey (November 2016), "A joy to review: Two books about primes and factoring", Cryptologia, 41 (1): 97–100, doi:10.1080/01611194.2016.1236625, S2CID 36760384