Jane Cronin Scanlon

Jane Smiley Cronin Scanlon (July 17, 1922 – June 19, 2018) was an American mathematician and an emeritus professor of mathematics at Rutgers University. Her research concerned partial differential equations and mathematical biology.

Education and career Scanlon earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Wayne University (now Wayne State University).

After working for the United States Air Force and the American Optical Company, she returned to academia as a lecturer at Wheaton College (Massachusetts) and then Stonehill College. She moved to the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1957, and to Rutgers in 1965. In 1974 Scanlon was elected as an AMS Member at Large and held the position until 1976. She retired in 1991. During her twenty-six years at Rutgers, she supervised seven doctoral students.

She died in June 2018 at the age of 95.

Recognition Scanlon was a Noether Lecturer in 1985, Her talks concerned "entrainment of frequency" and the application of this principle to mathematical models of the Purkinje fibers in the heart.

Personal life She married the physicist Joseph Scanlon in 1953. The two divorced in 1979. Fixed points and topological degrees in nonlinear analysis, American Mathematical Society 1964; 1995 pbk edition of 1972 reprint with corrections Mathematical aspects of the Hodgkin-Huxley neural theory, Cambridge University Press 1987 Mathematics of Cell Electrophysiology, Dekker 1981

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