Margaret M. Bayer is an American mathematician working in polyhedral combinatorics.
Her dissertation, Facial Enumeration in Polytopes, Spheres and Other Complexes, was supervised by Louis Billera.
[2] In 2012 the university of Kansas named Bayer as one of 24 "Women of Distinction" among their students, faculty, and alumnae.
[4][5] In 2020 Bayer was named a Fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics "for her far-reaching work on the combinatorics and geometry of polytopes; for a long record of successfully mentoring, advising, and supervising women in mathematics at all levels; and for her service to AWM and the profession.
"[6] She was married to Ralph Byers (1955–2007), also a mathematician at the University of Kansas; they had two daughters.