Ayşe Şahin
Ayşe Arzu Şahin is a Turkish-American mathematician who works in dynamical systems. She is the chair of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Wright State University, and a co-author of two textbooks on calculus and dynamical systems.Şahin graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1988.
She completed her Ph.D. in 1994 at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her dissertation, Tiling Representations of Actions and -Equivalence in Two Dimensions, was supervised by Daniel Rudolph.
She joined the mathematics faculty at North Dakota State University, where she worked from 1994 until 2001, when she moved to DePaul University. At DePaul, she became a full professor in 2010, and co-directed a master's program in Middle School Mathematics. She moved again to Wright State as chair in 2015.Books
In 2017, with Kathleen Madden and Aimee Johnson, Şahin published the textbook Discovering Discrete Dynamical Systems through the Mathematical Association of America. She is also a co-author of Calculus: Single and Multivariable, a text whose many other co-authors include Deborah Hughes Hallett, William G. McCallum, and Andrew M. Gleason.
