Judith Q Longyear

Judith Querida Longyear (20 September 1938–13 December 1995) was an American mathematician and professor whose research interests included graph theory and combinatorics. Longyear earned her Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University 1972, under the supervision of Sarvadaman Chowla, with a thesis entitled Tactical Configurations. She taught mathematics at several universities including California Institute of Technology, Dartmouth College and Wayne State University. She worked on nested block designs and Hadamard matrices.