Phyllis Zweig Chinn (née Zweig; born September 26, 1941) is an American mathematician who holds a professorship in mathematics, women's studies, and teaching preparation at Cal Poly Humboldt in California.
[1] Chinn was born in Rochester, New York and graduated in 1962 from Brandeis University.
[1] She earned her Ph.D. in 1969 from the University of California, Santa Barbara with a dissertation on graph isomorphism supervised by Paul Kelly.
[1][2] She taught at Towson State College, a training school for teachers in Maryland, from 1969 to 1975, and earned tenure there in 1974, before moving to Cal Poly Humboldt.
[3][7] Chinn is also an avid juggler,[3] and founded a juggling club at Cal Poly Humboldt in the 1980s.