Helen G. Grundman

Helen Giessler Grundman is an American mathematician. She is the Director of Education and Diversity at the American Mathematical Society and Research Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Bryn Mawr College.[1] Grundman is noted for her research in number theory and efforts to increase diversity in mathematics.

Helen Grundman
Citizenship	United States
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley
Known for	Number theory
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	American Mathematical Society
Thesis	'The Arithmetic Genus of Hilbert Modular Threefolds' (1977)
Doctoral advisor	P. Emery (Paul) Thomas

Education

Helen Grundman earned her PhD in 1989 from the University of California, Berkeley, under the supervision of P. Emery Thomas.[2]

Employment

After receiving her PhD, Grundman spent two years as a C. L. E. Moore instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She became a professor at Bryn Mawr College in 1991. In 2016, Grundman was named as the inaugural Director of Education and Diversity for the American Mathematical Society.[3]

Research

In 1994, Grundman proved that sequences of more than 2n consecutive Harshad numbers in base n do not exist.^[G94]

Honors

In 2017, Grundman was selected as a fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics in the inaugural class.[4]

Selected publications

G94.	Grundman, H. G. (1994). "Sequences of consecutive n-Niven numbers" (PDF). Fibonacci Quarterly. 32 (2): 174–175. ISSN 0015-0517. Zbl 0796.11002.

References

1. Faculty profile at Bryn Mawr
2. Helen G. Grundman at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
3. "AMS names Helen Grundman Director of Education and Diversity". American Mathematical Society. American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
4. "2018 Inaugural Class of AWM Fellows". awm-math.org/awards/awm-fellows/. Association for Women in Mathematics. Retrieved 9 January 2021.