Lê Thị Thanh Nhàn (born March 23, 1970)Personal data for Lê Thị Thanh Nhàn
, Thái Nguyên University, retrieved 2015-07-23. is a Vietnamese

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, mathematical structure, structure, space, Mathematica ...

who is a professor of mathematics and vice rector for the College of Science at Thái Nguyên University.. Her research concerns

commutative algebra Commutative algebra, first known as ideal theory, is the branch of algebra that studies commutative rings, their ideal (ring theory), ideals, and module (mathematics), modules over such rings. Both algebraic geometry and algebraic number theo ...

and

algebraic geometry Algebraic geometry is a branch of mathematics which uses abstract algebraic techniques, mainly from commutative algebra, to solve geometry, geometrical problems. Classically, it studies zero of a function, zeros of multivariate polynomials; th ...

Biography

Nhàn's father was a soldier, who died when he was young, and her mother was a teacher. She was born in Thừa Thiên–Huế, and grew up in Thái Nguyên as the middle of five children in a poor family.. Planning to become a teacher herself, she studied mathematics at the Thái Nguyên College of Education from 1986 to 1990, earning a bachelor's degree, and on graduating became a lecturer in mathematics at the same institution. She continued her education at the Hanoi University of Education, earning a master's degree in 1995 and then at the Institute of Mathematics, Vietnam Academy of Sciences and Technology, earning her Ph.D. in 2001, under the joint supervision of Prof. Nguyen Tu Cuong and Marcel Morales of

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. She moved from the College of Education to the College of Science in 2002, and was promoted to associate professor in 2005, becoming the youngest mathematician in Vietnam with that rank.. She has also been associated with the

International Centre for Theoretical Physics The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) is a research center for physical and mathematical sciences, located in Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy. The center operates under a tripartite agreement between the Gov ...

in Italy as a junior associate member from 2002 to 2007 and as a regular associate member from 2009 to 2014.. In 2009 she became vice rector. Nhàn was promoted to mathematics professor in 2015, becoming the second female mathematics professor in Vietnam (The first Vietnamese female mathematics professor in Vietnam is professor Hoàng Xuân Sính)

Awards and honors

In 2011, she was one of two winners of the Kovalevskaya Prize, an annual award to promote women in the sciences in Vietnam. The award is named after Russian mathematician Sofia Kovalevskaya and was established in 1985 by mathematician

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and his wife Ann Hibner Koblitz, based on the profits from Ann Koblitz' biography of Kovalevskaya.

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Vietnamese-language interview
{{DEFAULTSORT:Le, Thi Thanh Nhan 1970 births Living people 21st-century Vietnamese mathematicians 21st-century women mathematicians Algebraic geometers People from Huế People from Thái Nguyên province