Leila Schneps
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December 22, 1961 Waltham, Massachusetts, United States |
| Pen name | Catherine Shaw |
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| Nationality | American |
| Education | PhD |
| Alma mater | University of Paris |
| Subject | Mathematics |
| Children | 4 |
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Leila Schneps (born December 22, 1961) is an American mathematician, living in France, employed by Centre national de la recherche scientifique, and based at the Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu of Pierre and Marie Curie University, France, where she specializes in number theory. In addition to academic publication, she has edited several text books on aspects of mathematics, written a popular book and articles on the use and abuse of mathematics in criminal proceedings, and, under the pseudonym Catherine Shaw, written a series of mathematically themed murder mysteries.
Schneps earned a B.A. in Mathematics, German Language and Literature from Harvard/Radcliffe University in 1983, then took up graduate studies in France. She completed a Doctorat de Troisième Cycle in Mathematics at Université Paris-Sud XI-Orsay in 1985, with a thesis studying p-adic L-functions attached to elliptic curves, a Ph.D. in Mathematics in 1990, with a thesis on p-Adic L-functions and Galois groups, and Habilitation at Université de Franche-Comté in 1993, with a thesis on the Inverse Galois problem.
Schneps held various teaching assistant positions in France and Germany until the completion of her Ph.D. in 1990, then worked as a postdoctoral assistant at the ETH in Zurich, Switzerland for one year. In 1991 she was awarded a tenured research position at CNRS, the French National Centre for Scientific Research, at the University of Franche-Comté in Besançon, where she still works. During the late 1990s Schneps also had short-term visiting researcher assignments at Harvard University, Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, and MSRI at Berkeley.
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