Dora Elia Musielak is an aerospace engineer, historian of mathematics, and book author. She is an expert on high-speed airbreathing jet engines,[1] and an adjunct professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington.[2]
Education and career
editMusielak earned a bachelor's degree in aeronautical engineering from the Instituto Politécnico Nacional in Mexico in 1978,[2] the first woman to earn a degree in this field there.[2][3] She continued with a master's degree at the University of Tennessee in 1980, and a Ph.D. at the University of Alabama in Huntsville in 1994.[2]
Her employers have included Northrop Grumman, MSE Technology Applications, and ATK Allied Techsystems.[2] She chaired the High Speed Air Breathing Propulsion Technical Committee of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics from 2014 to 2016.[4]
Books
editMusielak's 2004 self-published historical novel Sophie's Diary: A Mathematical Novel, based on the life of mathematician Sophie Germain, was republished in a second edition in 2012 by the Mathematical Association of America.[3][5] Musielak also wrote a biography of Germain, Prime Mystery: The Life and Mathematics of Sophie Germain (2015), also republished in an expanded second edition as Sophie Germain: Revolutionary Mathematician by Springer in 2020.[6]
Her other books include Kuxan Suum: Path to the Center of the Universe (2010) and Euler Celestial Analysis: Introduction to Spacecraft Orbit Mechanics (2018). These remain self-published, through AuthorHouse.
References
edit- ^ "Aircraft's target: Mach 6 for 5 minutes", Houston Chronicle, August 14, 2012,
Dora Musielak, an adjunct professor of physics at the University of Texas at Arlington whose research focuses on high-speed propulsion
- ^ a b c d e Dr. Dora Elia Musielak, University of Texas at Arlington, retrieved 2018-11-18
- ^ a b "A mathematical novel from UT Arlington professor", UTA News Center, University of Texas at Arlington, May 9, 2012
- ^ Musielak, Dora (July 2014), "Message from the chair", HighSpeed Times: Newsletter of the AIAA High Speed Air Breathing Propulsion Technical Committee, 5 (2): 1
- ^ Reviews of Sophie's Diary:
- Holdener, Judy (September 2006), "Review", MAA Reviews
- Intermont, Michele (July 2012), "Review", MAA Reviews
- Dunn, Si (August 2012), "Texas & Southwest books roundup", Dallas Morning News
- Draper, Norman R. (December 2012), International Statistical Review, 80 (3): 481–482, doi:10.1111/j.1751-5823.2012.00196_13.x, JSTOR 41819871
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Hebert, Christing (October 2013), The Mathematics Teacher, 107 (3): 239, doi:10.5951/mathteacher.107.3.0238
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Rauff, James V. (Winter 2015), "Review", Mathematics and Computer Education, 49 (1): 71
- Watkins, John J. (2012), Mathematical Reviews, doi:10.5948/UPO9781614445104, ISBN 9781614445104, MR 2918718
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- ^ Reviews of Prime Mystery and Sophie Germain: Revolutionary Mathematician:
- Pengelley, David (April 2015), "Review of Prime Mystery", MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America
- Pengelley, David (November 2020), "Review of Sophie Germain: Revolutionary Mathematician", MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America