Nancy Burgess Hingston is a mathematician working in algebraic topology and differential geometry.
[1] Nancy Hingston's father William Hingston was superintendent of the Central Bucks School District in Pennsylvania; her mother was a high school mathematics and computer science teacher.
After a year studying physics as a graduate student, she switched to mathematics,[1] and completed her PhD in 1981 from Harvard University under the supervision of Raoul Bott.
In the 1990s, she proved that the growth rate of closed geodesics in Riemannian 2-spheres is at least the one of prime numbers.
[8][9][10] She is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society, for "contributions to differential geometry and the study of closed geodesics.