Jeanne N. Clelland facts for kids

Jeanne A. Nielsen Clelland was born in 1970. She is an American mathematician. This means she is an expert in math! She studies special areas of math called differential geometry and differential equations. These topics help us understand shapes and how things change over time.

Jeanne Clelland is a math professor at the University of Colorado Boulder. She also wrote a math book. It is called From Frenet to Cartan: The Method of Moving Frames. This book helps other math students learn about advanced math ideas.

Her School Days

Jeanne Clelland went to Duke University. She graduated in 1991. She liked Duke so much that she stayed there for more studies. She earned her highest degree, a doctorate, in 1996.

For her doctorate, she wrote a big paper. It was called Geometry of Conservation Laws for a Class of Parabolic Partial Differential Equations. Her professor, Robert Bryant, helped her with this important work.

Awards and Honors

Jeanne Clelland has won some special awards for her math work. In 1991, she received the Alice T. Schafer Prize. This award comes from the Association for Women in Mathematics. It celebrates young women who are great at math.

She also won the Burton W. Jones Distinguished Teaching Award in 2018. This award is for excellent teaching. It came from the Rocky Mountain Section of the Mathematical Association of America. It shows she is a fantastic teacher!