Rebecca Anne Hedwig Waldecker (born 1979) is a German mathematician specializing in group theory. She is professor for algebra at Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg.
Education and career
Waldecker is originally from Aachen. She earned her doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) at the University of Kiel in 2007, under the supervision of Helmut Bender [de], and in 2014 completed her habilitation at Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg.
After postdoctoral research as a Leverhulme Fellow at the University of Birmingham, Waldecker joined Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg as a junior professor in 2009. She became professor for algebra in 2015.
Books
Waldecker is the author of the book Isolated Involutions in Finite Groups (Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, 2013), developed from her doctoral dissertation.
With Lasse Rempe-Gillen, she is the coauthor of Primzahltests für Einsteiger: Zahlentheorie, Algorithmik, Kryptographie (Vieweg+Teubner, 2009; 2nd ed., Springer, 2016), a book on primality tests that was translated into English as Primality Testing for Beginners (Student Mathematical Library 70, American Mathematical Society, 2014).
She became a coauthor to the 2012 textbook Elementare Algebra und Zahlentheorie of Gernot Stroth [de], in its second edition (Mathematik Kompakt, Springer, 2019).
References
- ^ Lebenslauf, retrieved 2020-08-16
- Rebecca Waldecker at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Reviews of Isolated Involutions in Finite Groups:
- George Glauberman, MR3136255
- Anatoli Kondrat’ev, Zbl 1298.20018
- Reviews of Primzahltests für Einsteiger and Primality Testing for Beginners:
- Samuel S. Wagstaff Jr., MR3154407
- Wilfried Meidl, Zbl 1195.11003
- Chapman, Robin (July 2014), "Review" (PDF), London Mathematical Society Newsletter, no. 438, p. 49
- Green, Frederic (June 2016), ACM SIGACT News, 47 (2): 6–9, doi:10.1145/2951860.2951863, S2CID 26146309
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: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Ehme, Jeffrey (November 2016), "A joy to review: Two books about primes and factoring", Cryptologia, 41 (1): 97–100, doi:10.1080/01611194.2016.1236625, S2CID 36760384