Caren Diefenderfer

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Caren Diefenderfer

Mathematics

#6112

World Rank

#8527

Historical Rank

#1894

USA Rank

Measure Theory

#5395

World Rank

#6399

Historical Rank

#1512

USA Rank

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Caren Diefenderfer's Degrees

• PhD Mathematics University of Maryland, College Park
• Masters Mathematics University of Maryland, College Park
• Bachelors Mathematics Hollins University

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Why Is Caren Diefenderfer Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Caren Lea Diefenderfer was an American mathematician known for her efforts to promote numeracy. Education and career Diefenderfer was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania. She started her undergraduate education at Smith College, but transferred to Dartmouth College among the first women to be admitted as undergraduates to Dartmouth. She graduated with summa cum laude honors in mathematics from Dartmouth in 1973. She went on to graduate study at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her 1980 dissertation, Approximation of Functions of Several Variables concerned function approximation for multivariate functions, and was supervised by David Sprecher.

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What Schools Are Affiliated With Caren Diefenderfer?

Caren Diefenderfer is affiliated with the following schools:

• University of Maryland, College Park
• University of California, Santa Barbara
• Smith College
• Dartmouth College
• Hollins University