Cathy O'Neil
Cathy O'Neil | |
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Cathy O'Neil at Google Cambridge in 2016 | |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | University of California, Berkeley Harvard University (PhD) |
| Awards | Alice T. Schafer Prize in 1993, MAA's Euler Book Prize |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | MIT Barnard College D. E. Shaw & Co. Columbia University |
| Thesis | Jacobians of Curves of Genus One |
| Doctoral advisor | Barry Mazur |
| Website | mathbabe.org |
Catherine "Cathy" Helen O'Neil (born 1972) is an American mathematician, data scientist, and author. She is the author of the New York Times best-seller Weapons of Math Destruction, and opinion columns in Bloomberg View. O'Neil was active in the Occupy movement.