Rachel Justine Pries

American mathematician

In the history of mathematics, Rachel Justine Pries is one of the names that keeps returning.

The record lists Rachel Justine Pries as American mathematician.

Rachel Justine Pries was born at Cambridge in 1972. Her recorded nationality is United States. She studied at University of Pennsylvania and Brown University.

Modern mathematics is collaborative and increasingly computational; proofs can now run to thousands of pages or depend on machine verification.

Her academic posts were held at Colorado State University.

The recorded fields of work are mathematics.

Mathematical work is judged by whether anyone can build on it, and that judgement takes decades.

That the work was done from United States matters: mathematical training, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.

Rachel Justine Pries is still working, and the final assessment of the contribution has not been made.

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