Carol Smith Schumacher (born 1960)[1] is a Bolivian-born American mathematician specializing in real analysis, a mathematics educator, and a textbook author.
[5] It was in freshman calculus at Hendrix that she met her husband, physicist and quantum information theorist Benjamin Schumacher.
[6] She went to the University of Texas at Austin for graduate study, and completed her Ph.D. in 1989 with a dissertation on the theory of Banach spaces, jointly supervised by Edward Odell and Haskell Rosenthal.
[8] Schumacher is the author of two inquiry-based learning textbooks:[4] Chapter Zero: Fundamental Notions of Abstract Mathematics, on the transition to proofs (Addison-Wesley, 1996; 2nd edition, 2001)[9] and Closer and Closer: Introducing Real Analysis, on real analysis (Jones and Bartlett, 2008).
[12] Schumacher is a 2023 recipient of one of the Deborah and Franklin Haimo Awards for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics.