Kate Adebola Okikiolu (an haife ta a shekara ta 1965) masanin lissafi ce na Burtaniya.[1]An san ta da aikinta tare da masu aiki daban-daban na elliptic da kuma aikinta tare da yara na cikin gari.[2]

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An haifi Okikiolu a shekarar 1965 a Ingila.Mahaifinta shi ne George Olatokunbo Okikiolu,sanannen masanin lissafi Na Najeriya [3] kuma masanin lissafin baki da aka fi buga a rikodin. Mahaifiyarta ta Birtaniya malamar lissafi ce a makarantar sakandare.Okikiolu ya sami B.A. a cikin lissafi daga Jami'ar Cambridge a 1987.A shekara ta 1991 ta sami Ph.D. a cikin lissafi daga Jami'ar California a Los Angeles, don rubutunta The Analogue of the Strong Szego Limit Theorem a kan Torus da 3-Sphere.[4] [5]

Dangane da aikinta na PhD,Okikiolu ta warware wani zato na Peter Wilcox Jones game da ci gaba da Matsalar mai siyarwa mai tafiya.[6] a cikin takarda Halin sassan gyare-gyare a cikin Rn.[7]Okikiolu malama ce kuma daga baya mataimakiyar farfesace a Jami'ar Princeton daga 1993 zuwa 1995.Daga nan ta yi aiki a matsayin mataimakiyar farfesa a Cibiyar Fasaha ta Massachusetts kuma ta shiga bangaren koyarwa a Jami'ar California a San Diego a shekarar 1995. A shekara ta 2011 ta shiga Sashen Lissafi a Jami'ar Johns Hopkins . [8]

Ta kasance mai ba da jawabi a taron 1996 na Ƙungiyar Mata a Lissafi . [9] Ta kuma gabatar da lacca na Claytor-Woodard a taron 2002 na Ƙungiyar Ƙididdigar Ƙasa,ƙungiyar ƙwararru Afirka.

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A shekara ta 1997,Okikiolu ta lashe kyautar Sloan Research Fellowship, ta zama baƙar fata na farko da ta karbi wannan zumunci.A shekara ta 1997 an kuma ba ta lambar yabo ta Farko ta Shugaban kasa ga Masana kimiyya da Injiniyoyi don binciken lissafi da ci gabanta na karatun lissafi ga yara a cikin gari.[10] Ana ba da wannan lambar yabo ga masana kimiyya da injiniyoyi 60 kawai a kowace shekara kuma tana da kyautar $ 500,000.

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