Judith Q. Longyear

Judith Q. Longyear
Born 20 September 1938
Died 13 December 1995 (1995-12-14) (aged 57)
Education Ph.D 1972 Mathematics
Alma mater Penn State University
Occupation Professor
Known for Graph Theory / Combinatorics

Judith Querida Longyear (20 September 1938–13 December 1995[1]) was an American mathematician and professor whose research interests included graph theory and combinatorics. Longyear earned her Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University 1972, under the supervision of Sarvadaman Chowla, with a thesis entitled Tactical Configurations.[2][3] She taught mathematics at several universities including California Institute of Technology,[4] Dartmouth College[5] and Wayne State University.[6] She worked on nested block designs[4][7] and Hadamard matrices.[8]

References

  1. ↑ RootsWeb: Database Index
  2. ↑ Judith Q. Longyear at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ↑ PSU Mathematics Alumni, retrieved 2014-06-25.
  4. 1 2 A survey of nested designs
  5. ↑ Tactical configurations: An introduction - Springer
  6. ↑ Graphs and Permutations - LONGYEAR - 2006 - Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences - Wiley Online Library
  7. ↑ Nested group divisible designs and small nested designs
  8. ↑ Classification of 3-(24, 12, 5) designs and 24-dimensional Hadamard matrices by Ito, Leon and Longyear


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