Amanda Chetwynd

British mathematician

Amanda G. Chetwynd PFHEA is a British mathematician and statistician specializing in combinatorics and spatial statistics. She is Professor of Mathematics and Statistics and Provost for Student Experience, Colleges and the Library at Lancaster University, and a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.^[1]

Education and research

Chetwynd earned a Ph.D. from the Open University in 1985. Her dissertation, Edge-colourings of graphs, was jointly supervised by Anthony Hilton and Robin Wilson.^[2] She did postdoctoral research at the University of Stockholm before joining Lancaster University.^[3] Her research interests include graph theory, edge coloring, and latin squares in combinatorics, as well as geographical clustering in medical statistics.^[1]

Recognition and service

In 2003, Chetwynd won a National Teaching Fellowship recognizing her teaching excellence.^[4] She was vice president of the London Mathematical Society in 2005, at a time when university study of mathematics was shrinking, and as vice president encouraged the UK government to counter the decline by providing more funds for mathematics education.^[5]

Books

With Peter Diggle, Chetwynd is the author of the books Discrete Mathematics (Modular Mathematics series, Arnold, 1995) and Statistics and Scientific Method: An Introduction for Students and Researchers (Oxford University Press, 2011).^[6] With Bob Burn she is the author of A Cascade of Numbers: An Introduction to Number Theory (Arnold, 1995).^[7]

References

^ ^a ^b "Provost for Student Experience, Colleges and the Library: Professor Amanda Chetwynd, BSc, MSc, PhD", Senior Officers, Lancaster University, retrieved 2019-06-16
^ Amanda Chetwynd at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
^ Author biography from Statistics and Scientific Method
^ Lancaster wins National Teaching Fellowship Prize for 4th Year Running, Lancaster University, 10 June 2003
^ MacLeod, Donald (11 February 2005), "Course closures creating maths 'wasteland'", The Guardian
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Review of Statistics and Scientific Method:
- King, Tom (February 2013), Significance, 10 (1): 42–43, doi:10.1111/j.1740-9713.2013.00640.x{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
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Reviews of A Cascade of Numbers:
- Abbott, H. L. (1997), Mathematical Reviews, MR 1377266{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
- Sharpe, David (January 1997), "Review", Mathematical Spectrum: 47
- Quadling, Douglas (July 1997), The Mathematical Gazette, 81 (491): 329–330, doi:10.2307/3619238, JSTOR 3619238, S2CID 59973837{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)