Margaret Armstrong is an Australian geostatistician, mathematical geoscientist, and textbook author. She works as an associate professor in the School of Applied Mathematics at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas in Brazil, and as a research associate in the Centre for Industrial Economics of

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in France.

Education

Armstrong graduated from the

University of Queensland The University of Queensland is a Public university, public research university located primarily in Brisbane, the capital city of the Australian state of Queensland. Founded in 1909 by the Queensland parliament, UQ is one of the six sandstone ...

in 1972, with a bachelor's degree in mathematics and a diploma of education. After working as a mathematics teacher she returned to graduate study, first with a master's degree in mathematics from Queensland in 1977, and then with

Georges Matheron Georges François Paul Marie Matheron (2 December 1930 – 7 August 2000) was a French mathematician and civil engineer of mines, known as the founder of geostatistics and a co-founder (together with Jean Serra) of mathematical morphology. In 1968 ...

at the

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. She completed her doctorate there in 1980.

Books

Armstrong is the author of the textbook ''Basic Linear Geostatistics'' (Springer, 1998), and co-author of the book ''Plurigaussian Simulations in Geosciences'' (Springer, 2003; 2nd ed., 2011). With Matheron, she edited ''Geostatistical Case Studies'' (Springer, 1987).

Recognition

In 1998, Armstrong was the winner of the

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of the

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. The award statement noted "her aptitude at the blackboard", the international demand for her short courses, and the "great clarity" of her book ''Basic Linear Geostatistics''.

References

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