Joan Prince Hutchinson (born 1945) is an American mathematician and Professor Emerita of Mathematics from Macalester College.
She studied at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, graduating in 1967 summa cum laude with an honors paper directed by Prof. Alice Dickinson.
[1] Returning to the United States, Hutchinson did graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania earning a Ph.D. in mathematics in 1973 under the supervision of Herbert S.
[H09][DH14] She has published over 75 research and expository papers in graph theory, many with Michael O. Albertson,[5] formerly of Smith College.
[11][12] On the occasion of her 60th birthday, she was the honoree at the Graph Theory with Altitude conference[13] at the University of Colorado Denver, organized by her former student Ellen Gethner, professor of computer science.