Kate Stange
Colorado
Mathematician
Kate Stange is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the University of Colorado Boulder. She holds a PhD in Mathematics from Brown University and has worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University, Simon Fraser University, the Pacific Institute for Mathematical Sciences, and Harvard University.
As a teacher, Stange embraces inquiry-based learning and the use of technology, creating student-driven projects, videos and interactive web applications. Stange has received two teaching awards.
Through research, Stange works to discover and prove new mathematical theorems and previously undiscovered patterns and truths about the universe. Stange uses computer software to generate data and computations to help her explore the “mathematical jungle” before collecting her observations to justify with logical arguments.
Stange is fascinated by the interplay between mathematical and visualization (often by computer), and helped organize a special research semester on this topic in Fall 2019 at the Institute for Computational and Experimental Mathematics at Brown University. Her areas of research expertise include number theory, elliptic curves, Kleinian groups and cryptography.
Stage is also a mother of two young boys, and an avid cyclist, having won a US national silver medal in collegiate cycling.
In 2005, Stange took a six-month sabbatical from her studies to volunteer in Russia and Tibet.
Memories of… Chippewa Days
Chippewa was the shared background for my closest lifelong friendships. I have memories of typing goofy notes to one another on the typewriters in typing class, representing the school in togas at the Ontario Latin Conference under the direction of the inimitable Mr. Munro, and discovering the hidden joys of mathematics in Mr. Garrett’s class.
Outside school, my friends and I would get together for sleepovers, watch and memorize the movie Clue, and dress up the store-window-mannequin my family inexplicably owned. When trapped inside by the long winter, I used to play Global Wars with the dial-up BBS (Bulletin Board System) community, which existed before the internet became widespread.
