Mai Gehrke (born 10 May 1964) is a Danish mathematician who studies the theory of
lattices and their applications to
mathematical logic. She is a director of research for the French
Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), affiliated with the Laboratoire J. A. Dieudonné (LJAD) at the
University of Nice Sophia Antipolis.
Education
As a child, Gehrke was educated at a French school in
Algiers
Algiers ( ; ar, الجزائر, al-Jazāʾir; ber, Dzayer, script=Latn; french: Alger, ) is the capital and largest city of Algeria. The city's population at the 2008 Census was 2,988,145Census 14 April 2008: Office National des Statistiques ...
, which used a
Bourbakist and very abstract mathematics curriculum. As a high school student in Denmark, she spent a year as an exchange student in
Houston studying painting, but was brought back to mathematics by a Polish mathematics teacher who taught her
point-set topology according to the
Moore method
The Moore method is a deductive manner of instruction used in advanced mathematics courses. It is named after Robert Lee Moore, a famous topologist who first used a stronger version of the method at the University of Pennsylvania
The Un ...
.
She earned her Ph.D. from the
University of Houston in 1987. Her dissertation, ''Order Structure of Stone Spaces and the TD-axiom'', was supervised by Klaus Hermann Kaiser.
Career
After postdoctoral study at
Vanderbilt University, Gehrke joined the faculty of
New Mexico State University in 1990. She moved to
Radboud University Nijmegen in 2007, and to CNRS in 2011. From 2011 to 2017 her work for CNRS was associated with the Laboratoire d'Informatique Algorithmique: Fondements et Applications (LIAFA) at
Paris Diderot University
Paris Diderot University, also known as Paris 7 (french: Université Paris Diderot), was a French university located in Paris, France. It was one of the inheritors of the historic University of Paris, which was split into 13 universities in 197 ...
; in 2017 she moved to LJAD in Sophia Antipolis.
References
External links
Home page*
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1964 births
Living people
Danish mathematicians
French mathematicians
Danish women mathematicians
French women mathematicians
Mathematical logicians
University of Houston alumni
New Mexico State University faculty
Radboud University Nijmegen faculty
Women logicians