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I always wanted to be a mathematician (apart from a time when I was eleven when I wanted to be a farmer's wife), and assumed that I would have a career, but I had no idea how to go about it: I didn't realize that the choices which one made about education were important and I had no idea that I might
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amazed me by talking of mathematics as though it were poetry. He once said about a long paper bristling with formulas that it contained the vague beginnings of an idea which he could only hint at and which he had never managed to bring out more clearly. I had always thought of mathematics as being
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After completing her doctorate in 1971 McDuff was appointed to a two-year Science Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship at Cambridge. Following her husband, the literary translator
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with Felix Schlenk, which gives rise to some very interesting number-theoretical questions. It also indicates a connection between the
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Speech delivered to the American Mathematics Society, Jan. 1991, in San Francisco, on the occasion of receiving the Satter Prize
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For the past 30 years McDuff has been a contributor to the development of the field of symplectic geometry and
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as a doctoral student. Here, under the guidance of mathematician George A. Reid, McDuff worked on problems in
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experience real difficulties and conflicts in reconciling the demands of a career with life as a woman.
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for Girls in Edinburgh and, although the standard was lower than at the corresponding boys' school,
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and also classified the rational and ruled symplectic four-manifolds, completed with
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much more straightforward: a formula is a formula, and an algebra is an algebra, but
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work on elliptic methods. Since 2007, she has held the Helen Lyttle Kimmel chair at
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in the blow up of the projective plane and the numbers that appear as indices in
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in Moscow who gave her a deeper appreciation of mathematics. McDuff later wrote:
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Margaret Dusa Waddington was born in London, England, on 18 October 1945 to
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found hedgehogs lurking in the rows of his spectral sequences!
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for Mathematical Exposition. In 2018 she received the
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Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
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AMS Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition
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L. Polterovich, "Focus on the scientist: Dusa McDuff"
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Fellows of the Association for Women in Mathematics
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In the spring of 1985, McDuff attended the 457:played as important a role as learning about 8: 2024:Fellows of the American Mathematical Society 1223:J-holomorphic curves and symplectic topology 1155:J-holomorphic curves and symplectic topology 645:J-Holomorphic Curves and Symplectic Topology 1227:J-holomorphic curves and quantum cohomology 1195:J-holomorphic curves and quantum cohomology 1832: 1818: 1810: 1524: 1510: 1502: 950:"Dusa McDuff: Some Autobiographical Notes" 673:United States National Academy of Sciences 351:, the noted feminist, author and lover of 38: 20: 2084:20th-century British women mathematicians 2079:Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1215: 1175: 683:. She was a Plenary Lecturer at the 1998 2009:English expatriates in the United States 919:"University of St. Andrews: Dusa McDuff" 685:International Congress of Mathematicians 547:Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques 202:International Congress of Mathematicians 1841:Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics 734: 655:McDuff was the first to be awarded the 521:Around this time she met mathematician 306:Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics 1999:Academics of the University of Warwick 971: 969: 967: 441:than that I had found infinitely many 1994:Alumni of the University of Edinburgh 1033: 1031: 913: 911: 500:Massachusetts Institute of Technology 304:. She was the first recipient of the 247:Massachusetts Institute of Technology 7: 2019:Fellows of Girton College, Cambridge 1394:Association for Women in Mathematics 944: 942: 940: 889: 887: 885: 849: 847: 845: 701:Association for Women in Mathematics 421:, she left for a six-month visit to 2094:21st-century English mathematicians 2039:Female fellows of the Royal Society 1989:20th-century English mathematicians 1310:Proceedings of the ICM, 1990, Kyoto 1291:"Fibrations in symplectic topology" 1197:by Dusa McDuff and Dietmar Salamon" 1157:by Dusa McDuff and Dietmar Salamon" 1135:Introduction to Symplectic Topology 1115:Hartnett, Kevin (9 February 2017), 1010:Association of Women Mathematicians 866:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U25578 860:. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 641:Introduction to Symplectic Topology 510:where she worked with Segal on the 506:, and soon she was accepted to the 380:Turning down a scholarship to the 14: 2059:People from Stony Brook, New York 854:"McDuff, Prof. (Margaret) Dusa". 1336:"List of recent Hardy Lecturers" 671:(1998) and a member of both the 639:, she co-authored two textbooks 408:, and published the work in the 124: 1096:. Mathematics Genealogy Project 825:"Dusa McDuff | Barnard College" 512:Atiyah–Segal completion theorem 146: 120: 2064:Stony Brook University faculty 1269:The Royal Society of Edinburgh 1137:, 2nd edition, Oxford U. Press 695:. She is also a member of the 677:American Philosophical Society 537:and the classifying space for 384:to stay with her boyfriend in 1: 1416:. London Mathematical Society 1217:10.1090/S0273-0979-96-00668-4 1204:Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.) 1177:10.1090/s0273-0979-06-01132-3 1164:Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 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She solved a problem on 1848: 1389:2019 Class of AWM Fellows 1191:Lalond, François (1996). 663:; she is a Fellow of the 622:embedded contact homology 394:Girton College, Cambridge 363:. McDuff was educated at 312:, and is a Fellow of the 285: 214: 92:Girton College, Cambridge 37: 2014:Cambridge mathematicians 952:. Stony Brook University 62:Margaret Dusa Waddington 2069:British women academics 2004:Barnard College faculty 1954:Panagiota Daskalopoulos 1596:Henry Marshall Charlton 1465:10 January 2014 at the 975:Donald J. Albers & 651:Honours and recognition 443:type II-sub-one factors 390:University of Edinburgh 382:University of Cambridge 361:University of Edinburgh 235:University of Cambridge 88:University of Edinburgh 48:2009 (80th Birthday of 1878:Bernadette Perrin-Riou 977:Gerald L. 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Photograph of Dusa McDuff, Edinburgh 2009
Edinburgh
Michael Atiyah
University of Edinburgh
Girton College, Cambridge
David McDuff
John Milnor
Conrad Waddington
Justin Blanco White
Satter Prize
Fellow of the Royal Society
Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
International Congress of Mathematicians
Sylvester Medal
University of Cambridge
University of York
University of Warwick
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Institute for Advanced Study
Stony Brook University
Barnard College
Doctoral advisor
Katrin Wehrheim
FRS
CorrFRSE
symplectic geometry
Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics
Noether Lecturer
Royal Society

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