Lucy Joan Slater
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Lucy Joan Slater was a mathematician
who worked on hypergeometric functions, and who found many generalizations of the Rogers–Ramanujan identities. In the early 1950s she played a leading role at Cambridge University in devising a precursor of modern computer operating systems, and subsequently she helped to develop computer programs for econometrics
, working for much of the time with UK government officials.
In retirement she devoted much of her time to genealogy
.
Her (unpublished) memoirs include descriptions of life as a teenager in Portsmouth
during the bombing of the Second World War, and of working with early computers at Cambridge
.
Mathematician
A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....
who worked on hypergeometric functions, and who found many generalizations of the Rogers–Ramanujan identities. In the early 1950s she played a leading role at Cambridge University in devising a precursor of modern computer operating systems, and subsequently she helped to develop computer programs for econometrics
Econometrics
Econometrics has been defined as "the application of mathematics and statistical methods to economic data" and described as the branch of economics "that aims to give empirical content to economic relations." More precisely, it is "the quantitative analysis of actual economic phenomena based on...
, working for much of the time with UK government officials.
In retirement she devoted much of her time to genealogy
Genealogy
Genealogy is the study of families and the tracing of their lineages and history. Genealogists use oral traditions, historical records, genetic analysis, and other records to obtain information about a family and to demonstrate kinship and pedigrees of its members...
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Her (unpublished) memoirs include descriptions of life as a teenager in Portsmouth
Portsmouth
Portsmouth is the second largest city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire on the south coast of England. Portsmouth is notable for being the United Kingdom's only island city; it is located mainly on Portsea Island...
during the bombing of the Second World War, and of working with early computers at Cambridge
Cambridge
The city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the...
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Publications
| year= 1960}} | year= 1966}} (there is a 2008 paperback with ISBN 978-0-521-09061-2)- Fortran programs for economists, Cambridge University Press, 1967
- First steps in basic Fortran, London: Chapman & Hall, 1971
- More Fortran programs for economists, Cambridge University Press, 1972
- GEM: a general econometric matrix program, Cambridge University Press, 1976
- Dynamic regression: theory and algorithms (co-author with M. H. Pesaran), Halsted Press, 1980