Alina Carmen Cojocaru facts for kids
Alina Carmen Cojocaru is a talented mathematician from Romania. She studies a special area of math called number theory, which is all about whole numbers and their properties. She is also known for her work on elliptic curves, which are special curves used in advanced math, and sieve theory, a method used to find prime numbers.
Alina Cojocaru teaches math as a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago in the United States. She also does important research at the Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy in her home country.
She earned her highest university degree, a Ph.D., in 2002 from Queen's University in Canada. For her Ph.D., she wrote a long research paper called a dissertation. It was about "Cyclicity of Elliptic Curves Modulo p," which sounds complicated but is a deep dive into how elliptic curves behave with certain numbers. Her teachers, M. Ram Murty and Ernst Kani, helped her with this project.
In 2023, Alina Cojocaru was chosen to be a member of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) Council. This is an important group that helps guide the field of mathematics.
Books She Wrote and Edited
Alina Cojocaru has written and helped edit several math books. These books are often used by students and researchers who want to learn more about advanced math topics.
- She is an author of the book An Introduction to Sieve Methods and their Applications. She wrote this book with M. Ram Murty, and it helps explain how sieve theory works.
- She also helped edit a book called Women in Numbers: Research Directions in Number Theory. This book shares new ideas and research from women mathematicians working in number theory.
- Another book she edited is Scholar: A Scientific Celebration Highlighting Open Lines of Arithmetic Research. This book was created to honor the mathematical work of M. Ram Murty.
