An image that arose from Professor Rempe-Gillen’s research on exponential maps
Two mathematicians will receive a prestigious award from the Mathematical Association of America for a paper that appeared in the December 2015 issue of The American Mathematical Monthly.
Professor Lasse Rempe-Gillen and Zhaiming Shen, from the Department of Mathematical Sciences, co-authored `The Exponential Map is Chaotic: An Invitation to Transcendental Dynamics’ which has been selected to receive the 2017 Merten M. Hasse Prize for a noteworthy expository paper appearing in an Association publication with at least one author being a younger mathematician.
Zhaiming Shen, the co-author on the paper, was an undergraduate in the Department of Mathematical Sciences, and is currently a postgraduate student at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. The paper arose from an undergraduate research project supported by the London Mathematical Society and the Nuffield Foundation in summer 2013.
Professor Rempe-Gillen and Zhaiming Shen will receive their award at MathFest 2017, which will take place in Chicago in July.
Professor Rempe-Gillen said: “It is a great honour to receive the Merten M. Hasse Prize. We hope that the surprising behaviour of the complex exponential map under iteration will encourage readers to further explore the magic of complex numbers, and the wonders of transcendental dynamics.
“Undergraduate research projects such as the one that led to this paper are a great opportunity, and I would encourage any undergraduate student interested in research to consider undertaking one. I would also like to gratefully acknowledge support for this work by the Leverhulme Foundation, through a 2012 Philip Leverhulme Prize.”