Gisèle Ruiz Goldstein facts for kids

Gisèle Ruiz Goldstein is an American mathematician. She is known for her important work in advanced math, especially how it can be used to solve problems in science and money.

Gisèle has won many awards for her amazing research. For example, in 2010, one of her papers received a special "Editors' Choice Award" from a math magazine called Mathematische Nachrichten. She was also a special professor at the University of Memphis from 2011 to 2014, holding a top position called the "Faudree Chair." In December 2020, a math journal created a special issue just for her 60th birthday, celebrating her many contributions to mathematics.

Her Journey in Math

Gisèle went to Tulane University and earned her PhD in 1986. A PhD is a very high degree you can get in a subject, showing you're an expert. Her main teacher and guide during her PhD studies was Jerome Goldstein. For her PhD, she wrote a big research paper called a "dissertation." Her dissertation was titled Mathematical Contributions to Thomas-Fermi Theory, which focused on using math to understand how atoms behave.