Linda Gilbert Saucier
American mathematician and textbook author
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Linda Gilbert Saucier (née Phillips; born 1948)[1] is an American mathematician and textbook author, a distinguished professor emerita of mathematics and computer science at the University of South Carolina Upstate.[2][3]
Education and career
Linda Phillips was the daughter of Rudd George Phillips, an education specialist for the United States Air Force.[4] She grew up in Gulfport, Mississippi, and earned B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Louisiana Tech University in 1970, 1972, and 1977 respectively. Her dissertation applied linear algebra to epidemiology; it was titled An application of the Jordan canonical form to the epidemic problem. She also became a faculty member at Louisiana Tech with her husband and co-author, Jimmie Gilbert, who died in 2005.[5][6] She retired from the University of South Carolina Upstate and was given the distinguished professor emerita title in 2011.[3]
