Name Susan Howson Doctoral advisor John H. Coates Notable awards Adams Prize | Role Mathematician | |
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Alma mater University of Cambridge Thesis Iwasawa Theory of Elliptic Curves for ρ-Adic Lie Extensions (1998) | ||
Education University of Cambridge | ||
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Susan Howson (born in 1973) is a former British mathematician whose research was in the fields of algebraic number theory and arithmetic geometry.
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She received her Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Cambridge in 1998 with thesis title Iwasawa Theory of Elliptic Curves for ρ-Adic Lie Extensions under the supervision of John H. Coates.
In 2002, Howson won the Adams Prize for her work on number theory and elliptic curves. She was the first woman to win the prize in its 120-year history. In an interview, she indicated that the competitive and single-minded nature of higher mathematics is possibly part of what discourages women from pursuing it.
Howson has taught at MIT, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, and University of Nottingham. She also held a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellowship.