Sarah B. Hart

Sarah B. Hart is a British mathematician specialising in group theory and sets of products; she has also written about the mathematics of Moby-Dick.[1] She is a professor of mathematics at Birkbeck, University of London and the Head of Mathematics and Statistics at Birkbeck.[2]

In 2020 she was appointed as Gresham Professor of Geometry in Gresham College.[3]

Education and career

Hart has a master's degree from the University of Oxford, and a doctorate from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology.[2] Her dissertation, Coxeter Groups: Conjugacy Classes and Relative Dominance, was supervised by Peter Rowley.[4]

She remained in Manchester on an EPSRC research fellowship and then a temporary teaching position before obtaining a position as lecturer at Birkbeck in 2004.[5] She was promoted to professor in 2013 and became department head in 2016.[6]

She is also vice president of the British Society for the History of Mathematics.[7]

References
  1. de León, Manuel (3 August 2019), "Las matemáticas de Moby Dick", Matemáticas y sus fronteras (in Spanish), La Fundación para el Conocimiento madri+d
  2. "Sarah Hart", Our staff, Birkbeck, University of London, retrieved 2020-02-15
  3. Sarah Hart Appointed Gresham Professor of Geometry, Gresham College, 28 April 2020, retrieved 2020-09-06
  4. Sarah B. Hart at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. Six Questions with: Dr Sarah Hart, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
  6. "Helping girls beat the less than one in a million odds of becoming a female maths professor – Sarah Hart, Professor of Mathematics at Birkbeck, University of London", Womanthology, March 22, 2017
  7. About us: People, British Society for the History of Mathematics, retrieved 2020-02-15
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