Judy Holdener (née Newhauser) is an American mathematician and educator. She is a professor of mathematics at Kenyon College. She was born in 1965. Holdener's primary interest is in number theory. She discovered a simpler proof of the theorem of Touchard, which states that every perfect number is of the form 2k, 12k+1, or 36k+9.
Holdener earned her B.S. in mathematics at Kent State University and her M.S. and Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Holdener joined the faculty of Kenyon College in 1997, where she is currently the John B. McCoy Distinguished Teaching Chair.
The poem Euler's Daughter by award-winning South African poet Athol Williams is dedicated to Holdener in celebration of her love of mathematics and life.[1]
References
edit- Holdener, J. A. (2002), "A Theorem of Touchard and the Form of Odd Perfect Numbers", American Mathematical Monthly, 109 (7), Mathematical Association of America: 661–663, doi:10.2307/3072433, JSTOR 3072433.
- Touchard, Jacques (1953), "On prime numbers and perfect numbers", Scripta Mathematica, 19: 35–39.
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External links
edit- Biography Page at Kenyon College Archived 2020-08-15 at the Wayback Machine
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