Lynn Margaret Batten (1948 – 28 July 2022LYNN MARGARET BATTEN
The Age, 2 August 2022 (death notice)) was a Canadian-Australian mathematician known for her books about

finite geometry Finite is the opposite of infinite. It may refer to: * Finite number (disambiguation) * Finite set, a set whose cardinality (number of elements) is some natural number * Finite verb Traditionally, a finite verb (from la, fīnītus, past particip ...

and

cryptography Cryptography, or cryptology (from grc, , translit=kryptós "hidden, secret"; and ''graphein'', "to write", or ''-logia'', "study", respectively), is the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of adve ...

, and for her research on the classification of

malware Malware (a portmanteau for ''malicious software'') is any software intentionally designed to cause disruption to a computer, server, client, or computer network, leak private information, gain unauthorized access to information or systems, de ...

Education and career

Batten earned her Ph.D. at the

University of Waterloo The University of Waterloo (UWaterloo, UW, or Waterloo) is a public research university with a main campus in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is on of land adjacent to "Uptown" Waterloo and Waterloo Park. The university also operates ...

in 1977. Her dissertation was ''D-Partition Geometries''. Formerly the Associate Dean for Academic and Industrial Research at the

University of Manitoba The University of Manitoba (U of M, UManitoba, or UM) is a Canadian public research university in the province of Manitoba.Deakin University Deakin University is a public university in Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1974, the university was named after Alfred Deakin, the second Prime Minister of Australia. Its main campuses are in Melbourne's Burwood suburb, Geelong Waurn P ...

in Australia, where she directs the information security group.

Books

*'' Combinatorics of Finite Geometries'' (Cambridge University Press, 1986; 2nd ed., 1997) *''The Theory of Finite Linear Spaces: Combinatorics of Points and Lines'' (with

Albrecht Beutelspacher Albrecht Beutelspacher (born 5 June 1950) is a German mathematician and founder of the Mathematikum. He is a professor emeritus of the University of Giessen, where he held the chair for geometry and discrete mathematics from 1988 to 2018. Bi ...

, Cambridge University Press 1993) *''Public Key Cryptography: Applications and Attacks'' (Wiley, 2013)

References

External links

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Batten, Lynn 1948 births Living people Australian mathematicians Canadian mathematicians Women mathematicians University of Waterloo alumni Academic staff of the University of Manitoba Academic staff of Deakin University