Jennifer McLoud-Mann is an American[1][2] mathematician known for her 2015 discovery, with Casey Mann and undergraduate student David Von Derau, of the 15th and last class of convex pentagons to tile the plane.
[2][3][4][5][6] She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Washington Bothell, where she is currently the Vice Dean of Curriculum & Instruction of the School of STEM.
Her dissertation in commutative algebra, supervised by Mark Ray Johnson, was titled On a Certain Family of Determinantal-Like Ideals.
In 2013, she moved to the University of Washington Bothell where she chaired the School of STEM's Engineering & Mathematics division for three years.
[10][11] This discovery was facilitated by undergraduate researcher David Von Derau, who automated an algorithm developed by McLoud-Mann and Mann.