Helen G. Grundman

Helen Giessler Grundman is an American mathematician. She is the Director of Education and Diversity at the American Mathematical Society and Research Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Bryn Mawr College. Grundman is noted for her research in number theory and efforts to increase diversity in mathematics.

Education

Helen Grundman earned her PhD in 1989 from the University of California, Berkeley, under the supervision of P. Emery Thomas.

Employment

After receiving her PhD, Grundman spent two years as a C. L. E. Moore instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She became a professor at Bryn Mawr College in 1991. In 2016, Grundman was named as the inaugural Director of Education and Diversity for the American Mathematical Society.

Research

In 1994, Grundman proved that sequences of more than 2n consecutive Harshad numbers in base n do not exist.

Honors

In 2017, Grundman was selected as a fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics in the inaugural class. That same year, she also received the M. Gwyneth Humphries Award from the Association for Women in Mathematics for outstanding mentorship.

Selected publications