Anne M. Leggett
Anne M. Leggett | |
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| Born | May 28, 1947 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Ohio State University
Yale University |
| Known for | Mathematical logic |
| Awards | Fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Loyola University Chicago |
| Thesis | Maximal -r.e. sets and their complements (1973) |
| Doctoral advisor | Manuel Lerman |
Anne Marie Leggett (born May 28, 1947) is an American mathematical logician. She is an associate professor emerita of mathematics at Loyola University Chicago.
Leggett was the editor-in-chief of the bi-monthly newsletter of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM), a position she held continuously from 1977 until the January-February 2024 issue. Leggett described her tenure as AWM Newsletter Editor in the article This and That: My Time as AWM Newsletter Editor which appeared in the volume Fifty Years of Women in Mathematics: Reminiscences, History, and Visions for the Future of AWM. She has served on the Executive Committee of the AWM since 1977 and the AWM Policy and Advocacy Committee (2008-2015). With Bettye Anne Case, she is the editor of the book Complexities: Women in Mathematics (with Anne M. Leggett, Princeton University Press, 2005). Leggett received an Alpha Sigma Nu Book Award for Complexities in 2006.