Lê Thị Thanh Nhàn (born March 23, 1970)[1] is a Vietnamese mathematician who is a professor of mathematics and vice rector for the College of Science at Thái Nguyên University.
[3] Nhàn's father was a soldier, who died when he was young, and her mother was a teacher.
She was born in Thừa Thiên–Huế, and grew up in Thái Nguyên as the middle of five children in a poor family.
[4] Planning to become a teacher herself,[4] she studied mathematics at the Thái Nguyên College of Education from 1986 to 1990, earning a bachelor's degree, and on graduating became a lecturer in mathematics at the same institution.
She continued her education at the Hanoi University of Education, earning a master's degree in 1995 and then at the Institute of Mathematics, Vietnam Academy of Sciences and Technology, earning her Ph.D. in 2001,[1] under the joint supervision of Prof. Nguyen Tu Cuong and Marcel Morales of Joseph Fourier University.