Audrey Terras
| Audrey Terras | |
|---|---|
| Born |
September 10, 1942 Washington, D.C. |
| Residence | San Diego, California |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of California, San Diego |
| Alma mater | Yale University |
| Doctoral advisor | Tsuneo Tamagawa |
| Notable awards |
Fellow of the AAAS Noether Lecturer AWM/MAA Falconer Lecturer |
Audrey Anne Terras (born September 10, 1942) is an American mathematician who works primarily in number theory. Her research has focused on quantum chaos and on various types of zeta functions.
Audrey Terras was born September 10, 1942 in Washington, D.C. She received a BS degree in mathematics from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1964, and MA and PhD degrees from Yale University in 1966 and 1970 respectively. She stated in a 2008 interview that she chose to study mathematics because "The U.S. government paid me! And not much! It was the time of Sputnik, so we needed to produce more mathematicians, and when I was deciding between Math and History, they weren’t paying me to do history, they were paying me to do math."
Terras joined the University of California, San Diego as an assistant professor in 1972, and is now a full professor there.
As an undergraduate Terras was inspired by her teacher Sigekatu Kuroda to become a number theorist; she was especially interested in the use of analytic techniques to get algebraic results. Today her research interests are in number theory, harmonic analysis on symmetric spaces and finite groups, special functions, algebraic graph theory, zeta functions of graphs, arithmetical quantum chaos, and the Selberg trace formula.
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