Lynne Marie Butler (born 1959) is an American mathematician whose research interests include algebraic combinatorics, group theory, and mathematical statistics.
She is the identical twin sister of Laurie Butler, now a professor of chemistry at the University of Chicago; they were the youngest of six siblings, and grew up in Garden City, New York.
On the advice of the department chair, in order to avoid the possibility that her former advisor would be asked to recommend her, she changed her research topic.
[4] In 2013, bored with combinatorics and noting that many of her female students were doing particularly well the application-oriented components of her classes,[1] she returned to the University of Chicago for a master's degree in statistics.
[2] Butler's 1986 dissertation was Combinatorial Properties of Partially Ordered Sets associated with Partitions and Finite Abelian Groups.