Jane Piore Gilman facts for kids

Jane Piore Gilman, born in 1945, is an American mathematician. She is a special professor of mathematics at Rutgers University. She studies interesting areas of math called topology and group theory.

Her Journey in Math

Jane is one of three children. Her father, Emanuel R. Piore, was a physicist. She went to the University of Chicago for her first degree. She finished there in 1965. Later, she earned her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1971. Her big research project, called a thesis, was about "Relative Modular Groups." A professor named Lipman Bers guided her. After that, she taught for a year at Stony Brook University. In 1972, she started teaching at Rutgers University.

Books She Wrote

Gilman has written important math books. One book is about a problem in math. It helps test if certain math groups, called PSL(2,R), create a Fuchsian group. These groups are about movements in a special space called the hyperbolic plane. Her book is titled Two-generator Discrete Subgroups of PSL(2, R). It was published in 1995.

She also co-wrote a textbook for advanced students. It is about a math topic called complex analysis. She wrote it with Irwin Kra and Rubí E. Rodríguez. The book is called Complex Analysis: In the Spirit of Lipman Bers. It came out in 2007, with a second edition in 2013.

Awards and Recognition

In 2014, Jane Piore Gilman was chosen as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. This is a big honor for mathematicians. She received this award for her important work in topology and group theory. She was also recognized for helping her university department and the wider math community.