Lynne H. Walling

Lynne Heather Walling (October 9, 1958 – May 28, 2021) was an American mathematician specializing in number theory, who became a reader in pure mathematics at the University of Bristol. She was known for her research in number theory. She died on 28 May 2021.

Early life and education Walling was born on October 9, 1958, and grew up in northern California. She began her undergraduate studies at the University of California, San Diego, and after a two-year gap continued at Sonoma State University, studying accounting at first but then finishing a bachelor's degree in mathematics.

Career and later life She then taught at St. Olaf College, Minnesota. She lived in an old farmhouse, which had no indoor plumbing. She built a hand-operated pump, enabling her to install a bathtub in the kitchen, beside a wood-burning stove.

Selected publications Hafner, James Lee; Walling, Lynne H. Explicit action of Hecke operators on Siegel modular forms. J. Number Theory 93 (2002), no. 1, 34–57. Walling, Lynne H. Hecke operators on theta series attached to lattices of arbitrary rank. Acta Arith. 54 (1990), no. 3, 213–240. Merrill, Kathy D.; Walling, Lynne H. Sums of squares over function fields. Duke Math. J. 71 (1993), no. 3, 665–684.