Audrey Anne Terras (born September 10, 1942) is an American mathematician who works primarily in number theory.
Audrey Terras was born September 10, 1942, in Washington, D.C.[1] She received a BS degree in mathematics from the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) in 1964, and MA and PhD degrees from Yale University in 1966 and 1970 respectively.
[6] As an undergraduate Terras was inspired by her teacher Sigekatu Kuroda to become a number theorist; she was especially interested in the use of analytic techniques to get algebraic results.
Today her research interests are in number theory, harmonic analysis on symmetric spaces and finite groups, special functions, algebraic graph theory, zeta functions of graphs, arithmetical quantum chaos, and the Selberg trace formula.
[1] She was the Association for Women in Mathematics- Mathematical Association of America AWM/MAA Falconer Lecturer in 2000, speaking on "Finite Quantum Chaos,"[7] and the AWM's Noether Lecturer in 2008, speaking on "Fun with Zeta Functions of Graphs".